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adds special trick for continuing numbered lists
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You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in ''italic'', you include it in two single quotes like <tt><nowiki>''this''</nowiki></tt>
== Text formatting markup ==
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|{{Hl2}} |'''Description'''
|{{Hl2}} |'''You type'''
|{{Hl2}} |'''You get'''
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|Italic text
|<tt><nowiki>''italic''</nowiki></tt>
|''italic''
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| Bold text
|<tt><nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki></tt>
|'''bold'''
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| Bold and italic
|<tt><nowiki>'''''bold & italic'''''</nowiki></tt>
|'''''bold & italic'''''
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|Escape wiki markup
|<tt><nowiki></nowiki> <nowiki>no "markup"</nowiki></nowiki></tt>|<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>
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|Fixed width text
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<nowiki><tt>Fixed width text</tt></nowiki>
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<tt>Fixed width text</tt>
| Indent text
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<tt><nowiki>:Single indent</nowiki></tt><br /><tt><nowiki>::Double indent</nowiki></tt><br /><tt><nowiki>:::::Multiple indent</nowiki></tt>
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:Single indent
different levels <ref>An article with four or more headings will automatically create a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Section#Table_of_contents_.28TOC.29 table of contents].</ref>
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<tt><nowiki>=level 1=</nowiki></tt><ref>Use of a level 1 heading is '''''highly discouraged''''' as it appears with the same formatting and size as the page title, which can be confusing.</ref><br /><tt><nowiki>==level 2==</nowiki></tt><br /><tt><nowiki>===level 3===</nowiki></tt><br /><tt><nowiki>====level 4====</nowiki></tt><br /><tt><nowiki>=====level 5=====</nowiki></tt><br /><tt><nowiki>======level 6======</nowiki></tt>
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<!-- little hack to prevent TOC viewing -->
<span style="font-size: 132%; border-bottom: none; font-weight: bold;">Level 3</span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 100%; border-bottom: none; font-weight: bold;">Level 4</span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 80%; border-bottom: none; font-weight: bold;">Level 6</span><br/>
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|Horizontal rule
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<tt><nowiki>----</nowiki></tt>
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|Numbered list
{{Messagebox
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| text = You can continue a bullet on a separate line by using a colon after the hash (bare colon is the indent operator if that helps you remember) So, something like this<br /># one <br /># two <br />#: two continued <br />#: two continued <br /># three}}
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# one<br />
# two<nowiki><br /></nowiki>spanning several lines<nowiki><br /></nowiki>without breaking the numbering<br />
# three<br />
## three point one<br />
beginning of the line<br />
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|Preformatted text with no indentation
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<nowiki><pre> some preformatted text with no indentation </pre></nowiki>
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<pre>
text text text text text text text text text text text text
<nowiki><blockquote> quote quote quote quote quote quote </blockquote></nowiki>
text text text text text text text text text text text text
|Comment
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<tt><nowiki><!--This is comment--></nowiki></tt>
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<!--This is comment-->|}
== Paragraphs ==
MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a new line with the HTML tags <tt><nowiki><br> or <br/></nowiki></tt>.
== HTML ==
Some [[wikipedia:HTML|HTML]] tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <tt><nowiki><code></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><div></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><span></nowiki></tt> and <tt><nowiki><font></nowiki></tt>.
{{Admin tip|tip=If you trust your users you can allow full HTML by setting <code>{{mediawiki|Manual:$wgRawHtml|$wgRawHtml}} = true;</code> in {{mediawiki|Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php}}.}}