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You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''
Text formatting markup
| Template:Hl2 |Description
| Template:Hl2 |You type
| Template:Hl2 |You get
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| applies anywhere
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| Italic text
| ''italic''
| italic
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| Bold text
| '''bold'''
| bold
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| Bold and italic
| '''''bold & italic'''''
| bold & italic
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| Escape wiki markup
| <nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>
| no ''markup''
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| Fixed width text
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<tt>Fixed width text</tt>
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Fixed width text
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| only at the beginning of the line
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| Indent text
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:Single indent
::Double indent
:::::Multiple indent
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- Single indent
- Double indent
- Multiple indent
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Headings of
different levels <ref>An article with four or more headings will automatically create a table of contents.</ref>
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=level 1=<ref>Use of a level 1 heading is highly discouraged as it appears with the same formatting and size as the page title, which can be confusing.</ref>
==level 2==
===level 3===
====level 4====
=====level 5=====
======level 6======
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Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
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| Horizontal rule
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----
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| Bullet list
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* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds
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- one
- two
- three
- three and one-third
- three and two-thirds
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| Numbered list
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# one
# two<br>spanning several lines<br>without breaking the numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two
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- one
- two
spanning several lines
without breaking the numbering
- three
- three point one
- three point two
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Mixture of bulleted
and numbered lists
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# one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two
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- one
- two
- two point one
- two point two
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| Definition list
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;Definition
:item 1
:item 2
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- Definition
- item 1
- item 2
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| Preformatted text
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preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
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preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
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| Preformatted text with no indentation
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<pre>
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some preformatted
text with no indentation
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| Blockquotes
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Body
text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text
<blockquote> quote quote quote quote quote quote </blockquote>
text text text text text text text text text text text text
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Body
text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text
quote quote quote quote quote quote
text text text text text text text text text text text text
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| Comment
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<!--This is comment-->
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Notes: <references/>
Paragraphs
MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a new line with the HTML tags <br> or <br/>.
HTML
Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.
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Other formatting
Beyond the text formatting markup shown above, here are some other formatting references:
