Help:Wikitext
Wikitext (or wiki markup) is the formatting language used to write articles on the RetroTechCollection Wiki.
For a quick introduction, see Editing basics. For the house style, see Help:Formatting and Help:Writing a repair guide.
For the full MediaWiki wikitext reference, see the official MediaWiki formatting guide.
Common formatting
[edit source]| Markup | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|
'''bold''' |
bold | Three apostrophes each side |
''italic'' |
italic | Two apostrophes each side |
'''''bold italic''''' |
bold italic | Five apostrophes each side |
== Heading == |
(section heading) | Two equals signs |
=== Subheading === |
(subsection) | Three equals signs |
* Bullet |
(bullet point) | Asterisk at start of line |
# Numbered |
(numbered item) | Hash at start of line |
[[Internal Link]] |
Internal link | Double square brackets |
[https://example.com External] |
External | Single square brackets |
[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|Caption]] |
(image with caption) | File embedding |
<ref>Source</ref> |
(footnote) | Reference citation |
<nowiki>raw text</nowiki> |
(unformatted) | Prevents wiki parsing |
Tables
[edit source]Tables use a pipe-based syntax. Data tables on this wiki use the styled-table class, with the TemplateStyles line once before the first table:
<templatestyles src="Template:StyledTable/styles.css" />
{| class="wikitable styled-table"
|-
! Header 1 !! Header 2
|-
| Cell 1 || Cell 2
|-
| Cell 3 || Cell 4
|}