User:BDavis (WMF)/Sandbox/Wikitext

Basic text formatting
You can format the page using Wikitext special characters.

HTML tags
You can use some HTML tags, too. However, you should avoid HTML in favor of Wiki markup whenever possible.

Organizing your writing

 * See also: w:Picture tutorial

Links
You will often want to make clickable links to other pages.

Just show what I typed
A few different kinds of formatting will tell the Wiki to display things as you typed them.

Source code
If the syntax highlighting extension is installed, you can display programming language source code in a manner very similar to the HTML  tag, except with the type of syntax highlighting commonly found in advanced text editing software.

List of supported languages: http://pygments.org/languages/

Here's an example of how to display some C# source code:

Results in:

Images, tables, video, and sounds
This is a very quick introduction. For more information, see:
 * Help:Images and other uploaded files, for how to upload files;
 * w:en:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax, for how to arrange images on the page;
 * Help:Table, for how to create a table.

After uploading, just enter the filename, highlight it and press the "embedded image"-button of the edit_toolbar.

This will produce the syntax for uploading a file  

Galleries

 * Main article: w:Gallery tag

Images can also be grouped into galleries using the  tag, such as the following:

Mathematical formulae
You can format mathematical formulae with TeX markup.

Templates
Templates are segments of Wiki markup that are meant to be copied automatically ("transcluded") into a page. You add them by putting the template's name in. It is also possible to transclude other pages by using.

Some templates take parameters, as well, which you separate with the pipe character.