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All about wikis

The MediaWiki edit page has many interesting features.

Read on to learn them.

A button bar

The button bar contains buttons that are helpful for typesetting your text. Try clicking a few of them.

The edit box

The edit box is where you type your wikitext.

Test Area

This paragraph will be indented. The colon is placed only in the first line.

Very far indented indeed!

Pre-formatted

function dog_catcher($name, $truck) {
...
}

With tag pre

function dog_catcher($name, $truck) {
...
}

Bold, italics etc.

this is italics

this is bold

this is bold italics

these italics will end here and not continue on this second line

This is underlined text.

This is monospaced

Size, colour etc.

Here's some large text and some little words

Here is red text

Here is big text

Here is green text

Paragraph formatting

Here is a long paragraph in purple, blah blah blah...

Images

Lists

Bulleted Lists

• Dog
• Cat
• Cute little bird
  Tweet
  Tweet

• This is a bulleted item
• Here is another!
  • This is a level 2 bullet
    • Here is a level 3 bullet
  • Now we're back at level 2
• And now back at level 1

• My favorite dogs are:
  • Fido
  • Spike

    (My neighbour's dog)

  • Rover

For more information

See "MediaWiki" from O'Reilly Media for more details.