Help:Editing

This is a quick reference guide to the commands used for formatting text in the Wikipedia.

Lines are wrapped. Every empty line starts a new paragraph.

This is a quick reference guide to the commands 
used for formatting text in the Wikipedia.

Lines are wrapped. Every empty line starts a new paragraph.

You can also start a new line
without starting a new paragraph.

You can also start a new line<br>
without starting a new paragraph.

Lines can be

indented

several levels

:Lines can be
::indented
:::several levels

   If a line starts with whitespace, it will be formatted
exactly as typed. Lines won't wrap. This is useful for
pasting preformatted ascii text.

Lists are good:
- they organize material
- they look clean

* Lists are good
** they organize material
** they look clean

Numbered lists are also good
Very organized
1. easy to follow

# Numbered lists are also good
# Very organized
## easy to follow

Text can be centered.

<center>Text can be centered.</center>

A picture: http://www.wikipedia.com/wikia.gif

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The horizontal lines you see above were created with

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Tables, HTML style:

upper left	upper right
lower left	lower right
bottom row

<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>upper left</td><td>upper right</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>lower left</td><td>lower right</td>
</tr>
<tr> 
<td colspan=2>bottom row</td>
</tr>
</table>

bold text or HTML style	'''bold text''' or <b>HTML style</b>
italics or HTML style	''italics'' or <em>HTML style</em>
Funny fonts	<font size=+2 color=red>Funny fonts</font>
Link to game theory. (First letter of target is automatically capitalized. Spaces are converted into underscores.)	Link to [[game theory]].
Same target, different name: gambling. Targets can only contain letters and spaces!	Same target, different name: [[game theory\|gambling]]
Link to this page's discussion: /Talk	Link to this page's discussion: /Talk
External link: Nupedia	External link: [http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]
α₀ ≤ x²	α<sub>0</sub> ≤ x<sup>2</sup>

See Wiki special characters for all the fancy characters and symbols you can use.

To create a new page, first create a link to it somewhere else, then click on the resulting question mark behind its name. See naming conventions.

Now, go forth and be bold in updating pages!

/Talk