Help:Editing Cheatsheet

Just to make things easier, we've included a quick reference sheet below that can be used to quickly determine how to do various formatting things in mediawiki.

Mediawiki formatting cheatsheet

What it looks like	What you type	Notes
Bloomington	[[Bloomington]]	Regular article link with the article title as the link text
our town	[[Bloomington|our town]]	Alternate link text link. You can use a | between the article title and the alternate link text.
Indiana University website	[http://www.indiana.edu/ Indiana University website]	Link to external URL. The first space seperates the URL from the link text.
Wikipedia article on Bloomington	[[WikiPedia:Bloomington,_Indiana|Wikipedia article on Bloomington]]	Interwiki link. The colon charcter seperates the wiki name from the article name. For WikiPedia, this goes to the English version by default.
Bold text	'''Bold text'''	Make text within the triple single quotes boldface.
Italics	''Italics''	Make text within the double single quotes italics.
Section header	== Section header ==	Top level section header
Sub-level section header	=== Sub-level section header ===	Header below top level header
Sub-Sub-level section header	==== Sub-Sub-level section header ====	Lowest level header. Do not skip directly from top level header to this header.
Item 1 Item 2 Item 3	*Item 1 *Item 2 *Item 3	Create an unordered list of items
Planes Trains Automobiles	#Planes #Trains #Automobiles	Create an ordered (numbered) list of items
Fruits Apples McIntosh Granny Smith Oranges Bananas Kiwi Vegetables Cucumber Broccolli Califlower	*Fruits **Apples ***McIntosh ***Granny Smith **Oranges **Bananas **Kiwi *Vegetables **Cucumber **Broccolli **Califlower	Multilevel unordered list
A space at the beginning of a line	A space at the beginning of a line	Putting a space before content at the beginning of a line creates a box around that content with a dashed border.
Chrobb 17:44, 2 March 2006 (GMT)	~~~~	User timestamp signature. The four tildes (~) is what does it. Putting a dash or two in front of it is good form. Like this: -- ~~~~
Mark	~~~	Just the username
10:22, 9 May 2006 (EDT)	~~~~~	Timestamp
Prevent wiki processing	<nowiki></nowiki>	Put these nowiki tags around anything that you want to be interpreted literally and not be interpreted as wiki shorthand.
	[[Image:Showalter-odd-fish.jpg]]	Putting a full size image on a page.
	[[Image:Showalter-odd-fish.jpg|thumb|100px]]	Thumbnailed image
	[[Image:Showalter-odd-fish.jpg|thumb|100px|left]]	Thumbnailed image left aligned
Showalter Fountain Fish	[[Image:Showalter-odd-fish.jpg|thumb|100px|left|Showalter Fountain Fish]]	Thumbnailed image with caption "Showalter Fountain Fish"
Showalter Fountain Fish	[[Image:Showalter-odd-fish.jpg|thumb|100px|left|[[Showalter Fountain]] Fish]]	Image with caption containing link to Showalter Fountain article.