Cheatsheet

Wikis use symbols such as asterisks, single-quotes, square-brackets and braces to represent formatting elements like making words into links to other sites or articles, or creating tables for layout and dividing the text into headings. This kind of text markup used in the MediaWiki (Wikipedia) project is called wikitext.

Below is a table of the most commonly used wikitext formatting, the middle column is what you type into the article in "edit mode" (after clicking the edit link at the top of the page), and the right-hand column shows what the result would be when viewing the article normally. For more detailed information about editing and wikitext, see Help:Wikitext.

{| style="border:none; text-align:left; background:#f0f0f0; font-size: 95%;" italic bold bold & italic
 * width="25%" style="background: #e4e4e4; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|Description
 * style="background: #e4e4e4; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|You type
 * width="25%" style="background: #e4e4e4; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|You get
 * colspan="3" style="background: #e4e4e4; padding: 3px 5px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies anywhere
 * Italicise text
 * colspan="3" style="background: #e4e4e4; padding: 3px 5px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies anywhere
 * Italicise text
 * Italicise text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * Bold and italic
 * Bold and italic
 * Bold and italic
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * valign="top"|Internal link
 * valign="top"|Internal link
 * valign="top"|Internal link

(within this wiki)

Internal link

(to a category)

Interwiki Link

(to partner wiki)
 * valign="top"|

name of page
 * valign="top"|

display text

Category:name of category name of article

wiki:name of article

display text

Note: red links mean the page doesn't exist yet
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * External link
 * External link
 * External link

(to other websites)



display text

http://www.example.com

[mailto:bob@yahoo.com Bob's email] 1. redirect Target page J.Doe J.Doe, 27 August 2024 , 27 August 2024
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * Redirect
 * Redirect
 * Redirect
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * Signature
 * Signature
 * Signature
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * Escape wiki markup
 * Escape wiki markup
 * Escape wiki markup

with markup

without markup
 * colspan="3" style="background: #e4e4e4; padding: 3px 5px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies only at the beginning of the line
 * valign="top"|Headings
 * valign="top"|Headings
 * valign="top"|Headings

of different sizes

Tip: put in an article to remove its table-of-contents
 * valign="top"|

Level 4

 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * valign="top"|Outline Numbered Headings
 * valign="top"|
 * valign="top"|Outline Numbered Headings
 * valign="top"|



3. three

 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * valign="top"|Bullet list
 * valign="top"|Bullet list
 * valign="top"|Bullet list


 * one
 * two
 * two point one
 * three
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * valign="top"|Definition list
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * valign="top"|Definition list
 * valign="top"|Definition list
 * valign="top"|Definition list


 * Definition
 * item 1
 * item 2
 * item 2


 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #d4d4d4;"|
 * Thumbnail image
 * Thumbnail image
 * Thumbnail image
 * }