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Most text formatting is usually done with Wiki markup, so people don't have to learn HTML.
Wiki markup
Writing for wikipedia articles is a bit different from writing on a standard word processor. Instead of a strict "what you see is what you get" approach, wiki uses simple text codes for formatting. The approach is similar to that used in writing HTML for web pages, but the codes are simpler.
The wiki can accept some html tags directly, but most people use the built-in wiki markup language, which is designed for ease of editing.
Bold and italics
The most commonly used wiki tags are bold and italics. Bolding and italicizing is done by surrounding a word or phrase with multiple apostrophes ('):
- ''italics'' is rendered as italics. (2 apostrophes on either side)
- '''bold''' is rendered as bold. (3 apostrophes on either side)
- '''''bolded italics''''' is rendered as bolded italics. (2 + 3 = 5 apostrophes on either side)
A Wikipedia convention is to italicize book, movie and computer/video game titles. If the first mention of the subject of an article is also a book or movie title then italics are used. For example, the article Battlestar Galactica starts:
Please select a more precise entry:
- Battlestar Galactica series by Ronald D. Moore that began airing in late 2003.
- Battlestar Galactica Mini-Series by Ronald D. Moore that was the backdoor pilot for the series.
- Battlestar Galactica created by Glen A. Larson that aired in 1978.
Headings and subheadings
Headings and subheadings are an easy way to improve the organization of an article. If you can see two or more distinct topics being discussed, you can break up your article by inserting a heading for each section.
Headings can be created like this:
- ==Top level heading== (2 equals signs)
- ===Subheading=== (3 equals signs)
- ====Another level down==== (4 equals signs)
- =====Another level down===== (5 equals signs)
If an article has at least three headings, a table of contents will be automatically generated. Try creating a heading in this page's sandbox. It will be automatically added to the table of contents for the page. When you're done, click below to continue.
Indenting
For instructions on how to indent, see Chapter 6 of this tutorial
Wikipedia formatting style
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