Peacebuilding:Wiki markup
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This site uses a special code called Wiki markup for formatting the text and images in an article. The Wiki markup used while editing a page will determine how the text looks and what links and images are in the page.
When editing articles, try to follow the conventions in the Manual of style. These are guidelines for making a "good" article; if you don't quite get all of them, then just do what you can, and someone else may come through and clean up your work after you're done.
Text formatting
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A header is surrounded by two equal signs. | == A header == is surrounded by two equal signs. |
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Bold text is surrounded by three apostrophes. | '''Bold text''' is surrounded by three apostrophes. |
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Italic text is surrounded by two apostrophes. | ''Italic text'' is surrounded by two apostrophes. |
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For a bullet-point list, put each list item on its own line, with a star in front of it:
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For a bullet-point list, put each list item on its own line, with a star in front of it: *Item A |
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A numbered list is similar to a bullet-point list, but each item starts with a hash symbol instead:
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A numbered list is similar to a bullet-point list, but each item starts with a hash symbol sign instead: #Item A |
Making links
| To get this output... | ...use this markup. |
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You can link to an article like Home by adding the article title with two square brackets around it. | You can link to an article like [[Home]] by adding the article title with two square brackets around it. |
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You can give the link alternate text, like go to homepage, by adding a vertical bar after the title, and then the text you want to use. | You can give the link alternate text, like [[Home|go to homepage]], by adding a vertical bar after the title, and then the text you want to use. |
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Putting a URL like http://www.google.com/ into text makes it into an external link automatically. | Putting a URL like http://www.google.com/ into text makes it into an external link automatically. |
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You can give an external link, like Google [1], by using the title you want to use, a space, a single square bracket, the URL, and a closing square bracket. | You can give an external link more readable text, like Google [http://www.google.com/], by using a single square bracket, the URL, a space, the title you want to use, and a closing square bracket. |
More info can be found [on the Mediawiki site]:
