Help:Editing

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=== Basic text formatting ===
You can format the page using Wikitext special characters.

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!What it looks like
!What you type
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You can ''italicize text'' by putting 2
apostrophes on each side.

3 apostrophes will '''bold the text'''.

5 apostrophes will '''bold''' and ''italicize''
'''''the text'''''.

(Using 4 apostrophes doesn't do anything special -- <br>they are just '''' left over ones'''' that are included as part of the text.)
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You can ''italicize text'' by putting 2
apostrophes on each side.

3 apostrophes will '''bold the text'''.

5 apostrophes will '''bold''' and ''italicize''
'''''the text'''''.

(Using 4 apostrophes doesn't do anything
special -- <br /> they are just ''''left
over ones'''' that are included as part
of the text.)
</pre>
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A single newline
generally has no effect on the layout.
These can be used to separate
sentences within a paragraph.
Some editors find that this aids editing
and improves the ''diff'' function
(used internally to compare
different versions of a page).

But an empty line
starts a new paragraph.

When used in a list, a newline ''does'' affect the layout ([[#lists|see below]]).
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A single newline
generally has no effect on the layout.
These can be used to separate
sentences within a paragraph.
Some editors find that this aids editing
and improves the ''diff'' function
(used internally to compare
different versions of a page).

But an empty line
starts a new paragraph.

When used in a list, a newline ''does''
affect the layout ([[#lists|see below]]).
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You can break lines<br/>
without a new paragraph.<br/>
Please use this sparingly.

Please do not start a link or ''italics'' or '''bold''' on one line and close it on the next.
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You can break lines<br/>
without a new paragraph.<br/>
Please use this sparingly.

Please do not start a link or
''italics'' or '''bold''' on one line
and close it on the next.
</pre>
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You should "sign" your comments on talk pages: <br/>
- Three tildes gives your signature: [[User:Example|Example]] <br/>
- Four tildes give your signature plus date/time: [[User:Example|Example]] 07:46, 27 November 2005 (UTC) <br/>
- Five tildes gives the date/time alone: 07:46, 27 November 2005 (UTC) <br/>
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You should "sign" your comments
on talk pages:
- Three tildes gives your
signature: ~~~
- Four tildes give your
signature plus date/time: ~~~~
- Five tildes gives the
date/time alone: ~~~~~
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=== HTML tags ===
You can use some ''HTML tags'' too. For a list of HTML tags that are allowed, see Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Help:HTML in wikitext|HTML in wikitext]] help page. In general, you should avoid HTML in favor of Wiki markup whenever possible (see that Wikipedia help page for Wiki markup equivalents to permitted HTML elements, where they exist), as there are already wiki commands for italics, bolding, tables, and other nice things (look on this page for more specifics), and using HTML is much more prone to error. That said, there are some HTML commands that are useful when editing a wiki, especially on templates (it's usually better to do encapsulate the (relatively) tricky HTML in an easier-to-use template, which can be transcluded in articles).

{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
!width="1000"|What it looks like
!width="500"|What you type
|-
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Put text in a <tt>typewriter
font</tt>. The same font is
generally used for <code>
computer code</code>.
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Put text in a <tt>typewriter
font</tt>. The same font is
generally used for <code>
computer code</code>.
</pre>
|-
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<strike>Strike out</strike>
or <u>underline</u> text,
or write it <span style=
"font-variant:small-caps">
in small caps</span>.

Please, be ''very sparing'' in your use of the strikethrough tag.

The "span" element can also be used to modify the
<span style="font-family:serif;">font</span>,
<span style="font-size:150%;">size</span>,
and <span style="color:#33aa33;">color</span> of text.
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<strike>Strike out</strike>
or <u>underline</u> text,
or write it <span style=
"font-variant:small-caps">
in small caps</span>.

The "span" element can also be used to modify the
<span style="font-family:serif;">font</span>,
<span style="font-size:150%;">size</span>,
and <span style="color:#33aa33;">color</span> of text.
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Superscripts and subscripts:
X<sup>2</sup>, H<sub>2</sub>O
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Superscripts and subscripts:
X<sup>2</sup>, H<sub>2</sub>O
</pre>
|-
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<center>Centered text</center>
* Please note the American spelling of "center".
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<center>Centered text</center>
* Please note the American spelling of "center".
</pre>
|-
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<blockquote>
The '''blockquote''' command formats block
quotations, typically by surrounding them
with whitespace and a slightly different font.
</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
The '''blockquote''' command formats block
quotations, typically by surrounding them
with whitespace and a slightly different font.
</blockquote>
</pre>
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Invisible comments to editors ()
appear only while editing the page.


* If you wish to make comments to the public, you should usually use the talk page.
* Because the comment and anything inside it will be "snipped out" of the page before it gets passed to the renderer, comments can be used judiciously to insert spacing in the source code of a page (to make it easier for editors to read) without affecting the page's final appearance. See, for example, the lists section in [[#Organizing your writing|Organizing your writing]].
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Invisible comments to editors (&lt;!-- --&gt;)
appear only while editing the page.

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Line breaks<br>can be inserted<br/>with <br> or <br/>

These line breaks can be used to get line breaks in the rendered page without inserting carriage returns into the source code, which is useful for things like lists, where carriage returns interrupt the list numbering (to get white space ''in the code'' without interrupting the list, use HTML comments -- or use both, to get line breaks in the rendered page and white space in the code).

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Line breaks<br>can be inserted<br/>with &lt;br&gt; or &lt;br/&gt;
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=== Organizing your writing ===
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
!width="1000"|What it looks like
!width="500"|What you type
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<div style="font-size:150%;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;">Section headings</div>

''Headings'' organize your writing into
sections. The Wiki software can automatically
generate a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table_of_contents#Table_of_contents_.28TOC.29 table of contents] from them.

<div style="font-size:132%;font-weight:bold;">Subsection</div>
Using more "equals" (=) signs creates a subsection.

<div style="font-size:116%;font-weight:bold;">A smaller subsection</div>

Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs.

Start with 2 equals signs not 1 because 1 creates H1 tags which should be reserved for page title.
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== Section headings ==

''Headings'' organize your writing into
sections. The Wiki software can automatically
generate a [[table of contents]] from them.

=== Subsection ===
Using more "equals" (=) signs creates a subsection.

==== A smaller subsection ====

Don't skip levels,
like from two to four equals signs.

Start with 2 equals signs not 1
because 1 creates H1 tags
which should be reserved for page title.
</pre>
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* ''Unordered lists'' are easy to do:
** Start every line with a star.
*** More stars indicate a deeper level.
*: Previous item continues.
** A newline
* in a list
marks the end of the list.
*Of course you can start again.
* And you can space out the code  with HTML comments.

While it can be tempting for editors to double-return between every bullet in the list, as it makes the list easier for them to read in the editing window, this breaks up each entry into its own list of one element. This does not look unusual on the page, but it makes the page difficult to understand for vision-impaired users with screen readers, as the screen reader will read every entry as its own list (e.g. "List begins. One item. [Item.] List ends. List begins. One item. [Item.] List ends. List begins..."). If items in a list get overly long, and there is a need to separate them in the editing window, the proper way to do this is to insert an HTML comment (<code></code>) that begins at the end of one item and ends on the line before the next. A comment can also be inserted into a single item in a list to accomplish the same thing, but then there should ''not'' be a new line at the end of the comment. An arbitrary number of lines and spaces can be inserted into the comment to space the items apart in the editing window, but by keeping them inside the comment, the wiki parser will strip them out before parsing the page into HTML, so the list items are kept as one continuous list.
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* ''Unordered lists'' are easy to do:
** Start every line with a star.
*** More stars indicate a deeper level.
*: Previous item continues.
** A newline
* in a list
marks the end of the list.
*Of course you can start again.
* And you can space out the code  with HTML comments.

(I inserted the spaces before the end
of the comment right there so that the
left edge of the page would have a
clear break in it between list items.)

</pre>
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# ''Numbered lists'' are:
## Very organized
## Easy to follow
A newline marks the end of the list.
# New numbering starts with 1.

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# ''Numbered lists'' are:
## Very organized
## Easy to follow
A newline marks the end of the list.
# New numbering starts with 1.
</pre>
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Here's a ''definition list'':
; Word : Definition of the word
; A longer phrase needing definition
: Phrase defined
; A word : Which has a definition
: Also a second one
: And even a third

Begin with a semicolon. One item per line;
a newline can appear before the colon, but
using a space before the colon improves
parsing.
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Here's a ''definition list'':
; Word : Definition of the word
; A longer phrase needing definition
: Phrase defined
; A word : Which has a definition
: Also a second one
: And even a third

Begin with a semicolon. One item per line;
a newline can appear before the colon, but
using a space before the colon improves
parsing.
</pre>
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* You can even do mixed lists
*# and nest them
*# inside each other
*#* or break lines<br>in lists.
*#; definition lists
*#: can be
*#:; nested : too
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* You can even do mixed lists
*# and nest them
*# inside each other
*#* or break lines<br>in lists.
*#; definition lists
*#: can be
*#:; nested : too
</pre>
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: A colon (:) indents a line or paragraph.
A newline starts a new paragraph. <br>
Should only be used on talk pages. <br>
For articles, you probably want the blockquote tag.
: We use 1 colon to indent once.
:: We use 2 colons to indent twice.
::: 3 colons to indent 3 times, and so on.
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: A colon (:) indents a line or paragraph.
A newline starts a new paragraph.
Should only be used on talk pages.
For articles, you probably want the blockquote tag.
: We use 1 colon to indent once.
:: We use 2 colons to indent twice.
::: 3 colons to indent 3 times, and so on.
</pre>
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You can make horizontal dividing lines (----)
to separate text.
----
But you should usually use sections instead,
so that they go in the table of contents.
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You can make horizontal dividing lines (----)
to separate text.
----
But you should usually use sections instead,
so that they go in the table of contents.
</pre>
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You can add footnotes to sentences using the ''ref'' tag -- this is especially good for citing a source.

:There are over six billion people in the world.<ref>CIA World Factbook, 2006.</ref>

References: <references/>

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You can add footnotes to sentences using
the ''ref'' tag -- this is especially good
for citing a source.

:There are over six billion people in the
world.<ref>CIA World Factbook, 2006.</ref>

References: <references/>

</pre>
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<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible">
In certain areas you may want to take advantage of [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Collapsible_elements collapsible text].
</div>

{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
! Collapsible text || is quite versatile.
|-
| Content can be || hidden upon first load
|-
| or presented in || tables or other forms.
|}

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
This text is not collapsible; but the next is collapsible and hidden by default:
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">You can use the possibility of presenting or hiding content to allow page readers to quickly access detailed information.</div>
</div>
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<pre>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible">
In certain areas you may want to take advantage of
[collapsible text].
</div>

{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
! Collapsible text || is quite versatile.
|-
| Content can be || hidden upon first load
|-
| or presented in || tables or other forms.
|}

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
This text is not collapsible; but the next is
collapsible and hidden by default:
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">You can use the
possibility of presenting or hiding content to allow
page readers to quickly access detailed information.
</div>
</div>
</pre>
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=== Links ===

{{Main|Help:Link}}

You will often want to make clickable ''links'' to other pages.

{|width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
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!What it looks like
!What you type
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Here's a link to a page named [[Troll]].
You can even say [[troll]]s
and the link will show up correctly.
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Here's a link to a page named [[Troll]].
You can even say [[troll]]s
and the link will show up correctly.
</pre>
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You can put formatting around a link.
Example: ''[[Space Marines]]''.
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You can put formatting around a link.
Example: ''[[Space Marines]]''.
</pre>
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The ''first letter'' of articles is automatically
capitalized, so [[space Marines]] goes to the same place
as [[Space Marines]]. Capitalization matters after the
first letter.
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The ''first letter'' of articles is automatically
capitalized, so [[space Marines]] goes to the same place
as [[Space Marines]]. Capitalization matters after the
first letter.
</pre>
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[[Intentionally permanent red link]] is a page that doesn't exist
yet. You could create it by clicking on the link.
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[[Intentionally permanent red link]] is a page that doesn't exist
yet. You could create it by clicking on the link.
</pre>
|-
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You can link to a page section by its title:

* [[Twilight#Quotes]].

If multiple sections have the same title, add
a number. [[#Example section 3]] goes to the
third section named "Example section".
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You can link to a page section by its title:

* [[Twilight#Quotes]].

</pre>
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You can make a link point to a different place
with a [[Help:Piped link|piped link]]. Put the link
target first, then the pipe character "|", then
the link text.

* [[Help:Link|About Links]]
* [[Twilight#Quotes|Twilight quotes]]

Or you can use the "pipe trick" so that a title that
contains disambiguation text will appear with more concise
link text.

* [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|Rogue Trader]]

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You can make a link point to a different place
with a [[Help:Piped link|piped link]]. Put the link
target first, then the pipe character "|", then
the link text.

* [[Help:Link|About Links]]
* [[Twilight#Quotes|Twilight quotes]]

Or you can use the "pipe trick" so that a title that
contains disambiguation text will appear with more concise
link text.

* [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|]]
</pre>
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You can make an external link just by typing a URL:
http://www.nupedia.com

You can give it a title:
[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]

Or leave the title blank:
[http://www.nupedia.com]

External link can be used to link to a wiki page that cannot be linked to with <nowiki>[[page]]</nowiki>:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fotonotes&oldid=482030#Installation
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You can make an external link just by typing a URL:
http://www.nupedia.com

You can give it a title:
[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]

Or leave the title blank:
[http://www.nupedia.com]

External link can be used to link to a wiki page that
cannot be linked to with <nowiki>[[page]]</nowiki>:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fotonotes
&oldid=482030#Installation
</pre>
|-
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Linking to an e-mail address works the same way:
mailto:someone@example.com or [mailto:someone@example.com someone]
|
<pre>
Linking to an e-mail address works the same way:
mailto:someone@example.com or [mailto:someone@example.com someone]
</pre>
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You can [[Help:Redirect|redirect]] the user to another page.
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#REDIRECT [[Official position]]
</pre>
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[[Help:Category|Category links]] do not show up in line
but instead at page bottom ''and cause the page to be
listed in the category.''
[[Category:English documentation]]

Add an extra colon to ''link'' to a category in line
without causing the page to be listed in the category:
[[:Category:Space Marines]]

You can use pipes in Category links as well. The text after
the pipe is the title that will be displayed in the Category
page. This is useful if the page title starts with "The"
or a Campaign namespace prefix, for example.

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[[Help:Category|Category links]] do not show up in line
but instead at page bottom ''and cause the page to be
listed in the category.''
[[Category:English documentation]]

Add an extra colon to ''link'' to a category in line
without causing the page to be listed in the category:
[[:Category:Space Marines]]

You can use pipes in Category links as well. The text after
the pipe is the title that will be displayed in the Category
page. This is useful if the page title starts with "The"
or a Campaign namespace prefix, for example.

</pre>
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===Just show what I typed===

A few different kinds of formatting will tell the Wiki to display things as you typed them.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
!width="1000"|What it looks like
!width="500"|What you type
|-
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<nowiki>
The nowiki tag ignores
[[Wiki]] ''markup''.
It reformats text by
removing
newlines and multiple
spaces.
It still interprets special
characters: →
</nowiki>
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<nowiki>
The nowiki tag ignores
[[Wiki]] ''markup''.
It reformats text by
removing
newlines and multiple
spaces.
It still interprets special
characters: &rarr;
</nowiki>
</pre>
|-
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<pre>
The pre tag ignores [[Wiki]]
''markup''.
It also doesn't reformat
text.
It still interprets special
characters: →
</pre>
|<pre>
<pre>
The pre tag ignores [[Wiki]]
''markup''.
It also doesn't reformat
text.
It still interprets special
characters: &rarr;
</pre>
</pre>
|-
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Leading spaces are another way
to preserve formatting.

Putting a space at the
beginning of each
line stops the text
from being
reformatted. It still
interprets [[Wiki]]
''markup'' and special
characters: →
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Leading spaces are another way
to preserve formatting.

Putting a space at the
beginning of each
line stops the text
from being
reformatted. It still
interprets [[Wiki]]
''markup'' and special
characters: &rarr;
</pre>
|}

===Images, tables, video, and sounds===

After uploading, just enter the filename, highlight it and press the "embedded image"-button of the edit_toolbar.

This will produce the syntax for uploading a file '''<nowiki>[[Image:filename.png]]</nowiki>'''

This is a very quick introduction. For more information, see:
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files Images and other uploaded files] for how to upload files
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax Extended image syntax] for how to arrange images on the page
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table Table] for how to create a table

{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
!width="1000"|What it looks like
!width="500"|What you type
|-
|
A picture, including alternate text:

[[Image:Wiki.png|This Wiki's logo]]

You can put the image in a frame with a caption:
[[Image:Wiki.png|frame|This Wiki's logo]]
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A picture, including alternate text:

[[Image:Wiki.png|This Wiki's logo]]

The image in a frame with a caption:
[[Image:Wiki.png|frame|This Wiki's logo]]
</pre>
|-
|
A link to Wikipedia's page for the image:
[[:Image:Wiki.png]]

Or a link directly to the image itself:
[[Media:Wiki.png]]
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A link to Wikipedia's page for the image:
[[:Image:Wiki.png]]

Or a link directly to the image itself:
[[Media:Wiki.png]]
</pre>
|-
|
Use '''media:''' links to link
directly to sounds or videos:
[[media:Classical guitar scale.ogg|A sound file]]
|<pre>
Use '''media:''' links to link
directly to sounds or videos:
[[media:Classical guitar scale.ogg|A sound file]]
</pre>
|-
|
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! This
! is
|-
| SPAR
| TA!
|-
|}
|<pre>
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! This
! is
|-
| SPAR
| TA!
|-
|}

</pre>
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===Templates===

'''[[Help:Template|Templates]]''' are segments of Wiki markup that are meant to be copied automatically ("transcluded") into a page.
You add them by putting the template's name in <nowiki>{{double braces}}</nowiki>. It is also possible to transclude other pages by using <nowiki>{{:colon and double braces}}</nowiki>.

Some templates take ''parameters'', as well, which you separate with the pipe character.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
!width="1000"|What it looks like
!width="500"|What you type
|-
|
{{Heresy}}
|<pre>
{{Heresy}}
</pre>
|-
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
The colon is important! ''[[Heresy]] is a long article, hence the collapsible block. Notice that the parent page is now included in the same categories as the transcluded page is, which may be a useful feature. Finally, the background of this article is a pale blue color; that's from the collapsible block, not the article itself or the transclusion process.''
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible-content">{{:Heresy}}
</div>
</div>
|<pre>
{{:Heresy}}
</pre>
|-
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This template takes up to two parameters,
turning it into the /tg/-default-colored
Name and Trip fields. Not filling in the
parameters simply gives a stylized "Anonymous."

{{Anonymous}}

{{Anonymous|Namefriend}}

{{Anonymous|Tripfriend|!a159753zD}}
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This template takes up to two parameters,
turning it into the /tg/-default-colored
Name and Trip fields. Not filling in the
parameters simply gives a stylized "Anonymous."

{{Anonymous}}

{{Anonymous|Namefriend}}

{{Anonymous|Tripfriend|!a159753zD}}

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