MediaWiki syntax is easy to learn, and easy to use. In fact, you might already be using it without even knowing it.
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# Family
* External editor
* Wysiwyg editor
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cacycle/wikEd WikEd] is a full wysiwyg editor with special features for MediaWiki. You can install it for yourself in a single browser as a user script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12529 or you can install it into your mediawiki installation.
* Style sheets and
* Use this http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6372 greasemonkey script to show any mediawiki page as a presentation
=== WikEd ===
* Wikicode syntax highlighting
* Pasting, import, and conversion of formatted text, e.g. from Microsoft-Word and web pages
* Regular expression search and replace
* Edit preview and show changes on the same page without reloading
* Fullscreen editing mode
* Single-click fixing of common mistakes
* History for summary, search, and replace fields
* Jump to selected heading
* Type-ahead find
* Support for many languages
* Improved diff display
* Follow links and wiki-links (ctrl-click)
* Runs automatically on every MediaWiki installation when installed as a local Greasemonkey user script
For more details, see the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cacycle/wikEd WikEd] homepage
== Administering it ==