Help:Introduction to editing with Wiki Markup/5
Appearance
Editing pages
Activate editing mode
Formatting
Keeping it tidy
Wikilinks
Connect pages to each other
Saving your changes
Publishing
Creating new articles
Building a page from scratch
Summary
Review of what you've learned
Summary
- Wikimarkup is a simple source code language for Wikipedia
- You can view and edit the source code of almost any page on Wikipedia by clicking "Edit source"
- The Help:Edit_toolbar at the top of the page can do some formatting for you
- Formatting
==Headings==
by placing text between=
signs - Make text
'''bold'''
or''italic''
by placing it between'
apostrophes -
[[Links]]
within Wikipedia are added using[[]]
square brackets - Don't forget to summarise the edits you made when you save!
More detailed information

- Help:Editing
- Help:Cheatsheet
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Help:Wikilinks
- Help:Edit summary
- Help:Watchlist