Help:Me
This wiki is powered by "MediaWiki" - like Wikipedia, and also like the Mozilla intranet. MediaWiki uses a simple form of markup to enrich plain text. This is a cheat sheet; the standard editing help page is... comprehensive. Lots of trees, hard to see the wood. If you bookmark this page, then whenever you need it, just type "Help Me" into your Awesomebar.
Type things from the left into the page editing box of the page you are editing, and the result will be what you see on the right.
Heading
Smaller heading (more 'equals' signs; use up to 5)
Separate your paragraphs with a blank line.
Explicit line breaks are also possible, e.g. for poetry.
- Numbered list - start with a #
- Bulleted list - start with a *
- Sub-bulleted list - multiple *s
Links within the wiki - two square brackets on either side, optional link text separated from page name by a | (pipe).
Links to other sites - one square bracket and a space separator for the link text. You will get these two forms mixed up. :-|
Start a line with whitespace to have it rendered like this - good for quotations, code etc.
Three single quotes for bold. Two for italics.
==Heading==
===Smaller heading (more 'equals' signs; use up to 5)===
Separate your paragraphs with a blank line.<br>
Explicit line breaks are also possible, e.g. for poetry.
# Numbered list - start with a #
* Bulleted list - start with a *
** Sub-bulleted list - multiple *s
A blank line finishes a list.
[[Help:Editing|Links within the wiki]] - two square brackets on either side, optional link text separated from page name by a | (pipe).
[http://www.mozilla.org/ Links to other sites] - one square bracket and a space separator for the link text. You ''will'' get these two forms mixed up. :-|
Start a line with whitespace to have it rendered like this - good for quotations, code etc.
'''Three single quotes for bold'''. ''Two for italics''.
Lastly, if you have text already marked up with HTML, much of it will Just Work. Paste it in to the Edit box, press "Show preview", and see how it looks. You can mix HTML and MediaWiki markup.