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=The basics=
Two line breaks between paragraphs. Leading spaces mean that the line
will be printed out in mono-space.
Here are a bunch of examples of what you type and what you get:
<nowiki>A [[link]] to the "link" wiki entry.</nowiki>
A [[link]] to the "link" wiki entry.
<nowiki>A [[My Dad|link]] to the "My Dad" wiki entry.</nowiki>
A [[My Dad|link]] to the "My Dad" wiki entry.
<nowiki>A [http://wso.williams.edu link] to an external site.</nowiki>
A [http://wso.williams.edu link] to an external site.
==This Is A New Section==
==This Is A New Section==
===Sub-section===
===Sub-section===
====Sub-sub-section====
====Sub-sub-section====
<nowiki>''italics'' and '''bold'''</nowiki>
''italics'' and '''bold'''
<nowiki><email>email@wso.williams.edu</email></nowiki>
<email>email@wso.williams.edu</email> (Please use this tag, because it also hides the email address from spammers.)
# This
# is a
# numbered list
#* with an un-ordered
#* sub-list
# This
# is a
# numbered list
#* with an un-ordered
#* sub-list
* This
* is a
* un-ordered list
*# with a numbered
*# sub-list
*#* and an unordered sub-sub-list
*#** and also an unordered sub-sub-sub-list
* This
* is a
* un-ordered list
*# with a numbered
*# sub-list
*#* and an unordered sub-sub-list
*#** and also an unordered sub-sub-sub-list
A table:
<nowiki> {|
! adjective||noun
|-
|boring||table
|-
|unsortable||data
|}</nowiki>
{|
! adjective||noun
|-
|boring||table
|-
|unsortable||data
|}
You can also make a sortable table like this. Try clicking the header.
<nowiki> {| class="sortable" id="pick-a-unique-id"
! adjective||noun
|-
|exciting||table
|-
|sortable||data
|-
|appropriate||JavaScript
|}</nowiki>
{| class="sortable" id="pick-a-unique-id"
! adjective||noun
|-
|exciting||table
|-
|sortable||data
|-
|appropriate||JavaScript
|}
Until something better comes along, a good help resource is
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_edit_a_page Wikipedia's How to edit a page article].
If you're looking for a more comprehensive reference, try this one [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents provided by the WikiMedia folks].