Help:Basic wiki

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Wiki format can be very simple, this page has some basic wiki formatting tips.

Contents 1 Paragraphs 2 Bold and italics 3 Preformatted 4 Lists 5 Links

Paragraphs

First, any text that is not separated by two new lines (pressing Enter twice) will appear all as one paragraph. If you want to put text into a separate paragraph, you'll need to press enter twice to create a paragraph.

Example:

This will all
appear on one
line

But this will be in a new paragraph.

Appears as:

This will all appear on one line But this will be in a new paragraph.

Bold and italics

To make something appear in italicizes, you need to include two apostrophes around the text like ''this''. Which results in this.

To make something appear in bold, you need to include three apostrophes around the text like '''this'''.

To make something appear in bold and italics, you need five apostrophes.

Preformatted

This wiki makes great use of preformatted text, much more than other wikis. If you have some data that you want to include, but don't want to learn all the intricate wiki formatting rules, then you can use the <pre> tags. Simply enclose the text in <pre> and </pre> and the text will be formatted almost exactly as you write it.

Example:

<pre>
Text written like
this with        spaces in funny places
    and weird indenting, normally would be lost when entered into the wiki, 
but if you include the pre tags, it will appear perfect.
</pre>

Result:

Text written like
this with        spaces in funny places
    and weird indenting, normally would be lost when entered into the wiki, 
but if you include the pre tags, it will appear perfect.

Lists

Lists are very easy. There are two main types, and the easiest way is by example

Dotted list:
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item 2a
** Sub Item 2b
* Item 3

Numbered list
# Number one
# Number two
## Number three subsection.
# Number four

Dotted list:

• Item 1
• Item 2
  • Sub Item 2a
  • Sub Item 2b
• Item 3

Numbered list

1. Number one
2. Number two
   1. Number three sub-list.
3. Number four

Links

Links are very important in Wiki's. Consider placing links to other pages whenever you edit a page. You can create a link by enclosing the page name in square brackets. To create a link to the main page, you'd write: [[Main page]], which creates a link Main page.

Please note that case is important with links. The general policy is to create pages only capitalizing the first letter of the first word, and any pronouns. Eg Scanning in Auckland, NOT Scanning In Auckland or Scanning in auckland.

You can create a link to a page, but put different text on the link by using the vertical line character, [[Main page|this]] will link to the Main page like this.