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Wiki Language Crib Sheet

If you were never one to read the instructions, then the cheat sheet below should help you out.

Written in Wiki
How It Appears
text text
text with a space or two in front 
text with a space or two in front
''italicized'' text italicized text
'''bold''' text bold text
'''''bold and italicized''''' text bold and italicized text

Enter a line break...

by skipping a line

Enter a line break...

by skipping a line

: a colon indents a line...
a new line starts a new parapraph
:colon also starts a new line
::2 colons indent twice
a colon indents a line...

a new line starts a new parapraph

colon also starts a new line
2 colons indent twice

Make a horizontal line
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for dividing pages

Make a horizontal line

for dividing pages

Helpful HTML Tags

All usable in this wiki
line breaks text<br>text text
text
center text <center>text</center>
text
font size and color <font size="6" color="red">text</font> text

Wiki Language Comprehensive Guides

We STRONGLY encourage you to look at these helpful links on how to write/code in the Wiki language.

It's easy! We promise.

Making Links

MediaWiki's has some great how-to documentation on this.

Lost Wiki Pages

If you lost an entire page on the wiki, you may be able to find it by clicking the link below and looking around.

Special:Lonelypages

Preferences

Consult MediaWiki Preferences.

Searching

The search function used here is very simple. You enter one or more words or phrase in the search box.

Click Search to see if those words or phrases appear anywhere in the wiki, depending on the namespaces you have chosen or that you have set in your "preferences". Namespaces are sections of the wiki devoted to specific purposes and that may not be accessible to certain types of users of the wiki.

Click Go to find pages with titles that match the words or phrase you are search for. You will also get a list of results of where your search terms appear, depending again on the namespaces you have chosen or that you have set in your "preferences".

You will most likely want to check the boxes next to these namespaces if you cannot find what your are looking for.

  • Main
  • Talk
  • User
  • User talk
  • SiteIPLTeenPoetryWiki
  • SiteIPLTeenPoetryWiki talk

For how to set your default search preferences, see the Help:Contents#Preferences section for more.

Getting started links from Media Wiki

Some of this is highly technical.

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

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