Cheatsheet

Wiki Formatting For Dummies.

1: Making a page.

To make a wiki page, simply follow a red-colored link. That means there's a link to a page that hasn't been created yet, and it will ask you to enter content for that page. Once content is saved, even if it's just a placeholder, the page "goes live" and all links to it turn blue. From that point, you can edit the page by going to the "edit" tab.

Alternatively, you can type the name of the page into the Search box and hit enter. It will give you the option to create a page with that name if one is not found. If you're using this option, make sure the new page title is properly formatted (each word begins with a capital letter, unless it's "a", "the", "of" in the middle of the name). All page names should start with a capital, unless it's numerical.

2: Formatting.

Text formatting is done with single quotes. HTML coding also works; if you're using a text program to write a page and then copy/paste, it might be better to use the HTML to avoid smart quotes breaking your formatting. HTML also has the advantage of being able to post to or from Dreamwidth without amending the format.

• To italicize text, surround it with ''two single quotes''. Also <i> and </i>.

• To bold text, surround it with '''three single quotes'''. Also Also <b> and </b>

• To bold and italicize text, surround it with '''''five single quotes'''''. Also <i><b> and </b></i>

• To put a paragraph break between paragraphs, you will need to double-space. That will place one line of empty space between paragraphs. Alternatively, you can use <br> to show there's a line break.

• To create bullet points, use the "*". You can also create levels of bullet points by adding an extra star. So this:

*Item 1 **Item A

Looks like:

• Item 1
  • Item A

• To create a table, there's a couple of options.

• • To break up a list into multiple columns, without drawing a table, you can use {{div col|colwidth=15em}} LIST {{div col end}} where the number represents the width of each column. A page is 60em; so to break a list into two halves, you'd use {{div col|colwidth=30em}} LIST {{div col end}}

• • To create an actual table, there's a little more formatting. I've nabbed this from Frito's WhoWePlay table.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" |- ! Player ! Character(s) ! Codename ! Journal ! Team ! Phase 1/2 |- | [[Aisy]] | [[Felicia Hardy]] | Black Cat | [https://xp-blackcat.dreamwidth.org/profile xp_blackcat] | [[X-Force]] |Phase 2 |}

So. Columns are created by the "|" mark, rows by the "-".

3: Linking.

To make a link to another wiki page, just surround the name of the page with two square brackets.

Example: This is a link to the [[X-Men]].

That will show the words "X-Men" as a blue link that will go to the wiki page with that name.

You can also do a piped link.

Example: This is a link to [[X-Men | the team]].

That will show the words "the team" as a blue link that will go to the wiki page titled "X-Men".

To link to an outside website, use a single square bracket and the full web address of the page.

Example: This is an outside link to [http://www.dreamwidth.com].

That will show the web address "http://www.dreamwidth.com" as a link to that URL.

You can also pipe links to outside websites.

Example: This is an outside link to [http://www.dreamwidth.com Dreamwidth].

You do NOT use the pipe character for outside links. This will show the word "Dreamwidth" as a link going to http://www.dreamwidth.com.