Using Wiki Markup to Format Articles

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ARTICLE TITLES

When possible, make the article title the same as the question contained in the article, if it is a Q&A format.
The following characters are not allowed in titles (:, @, /, \, |, ^, #, ;, left square bracket, right square bracket, left curly bracket, right curly bracket, <, >)
Page titles may not start with ($, .., ~).

TEXT FORMATTING

Bold text

Put an * at the beginning and end of text

Example: This sentence is bold.

Italicized text

Put an underscore at the beginning and end of the text to be italicized.

Example: This sentence is italicized.

Text and paragraph alignment

To put text in blockquotes, put bq. at the beginning and end of the text.

This is a block quoted sentence (and paragraph)

To blockquote multiple paragraphs, put quote\ at the beginning and end of the paragraphs.

SECTION HEADINGS

The codes h1., h2., and h3. are used for section headings.  Put the desired code at the beginning and the end of the heading text.
Example:

This is heading 2 text

LISTS

Numbered lists

Put a # sign in front of each line of text that should be numbered.

Example:

1. This is step one.
2. This is step two.
3. This is step three.

Bulleted lists

Put an * in front of each line of text that should have a bullet.

Example:

• This is a bulleted item
• This is a bulleted item
• This is a bulleted item

To have a bulleted list within a bulleted list, use two ** in front of each line of text.

Example:

• This is a bulleted item
• This is a bulleted item
  • This is a bulleted item under the previous item
  • This is a second bulleted item under the previous item

LINKS

Internal links

To make a link to a page within the Knowledge Base wiki, and specify different link text, do the following:

[link text for article within the same space | page title]

Example:

This link text will point to an article about comments

To make a link to a page in another space, and specify different link test, do the following:

[different text|SpaceName:page title]

[this link text will point to a test article in IS&T Contributions Space]

External links

To make links to pages outside the wiki, do the following:

[different text|URL]

Example:

The MIT home page

TABLES

Table with cells

Use the section macro along with column tags to lay out tables.

Example:

{section}
{column:width=25%}
Service Tag
HZV8L51
{column}
{column:width=25%}
System Type
Latitude D600
{column}
{column:width=25%}
Ship Date
8/29/2004
{column}
{column:width=25%}
Dell IBU
Americas
{column}
{section}

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Adding comments to wiki code

Using the HTMLcomment tag, you can can embed commments within the wiki code so they display only when you're in Edit mode.

Example:

{HTMLcomment}This won't appear in the article{HTMLcomment}

More information

See: Wiki Markup help