Help:Editing and markup cheatsheet

This is a simple Source Editor cheatsheet. It shows you how to use a lot of the markup needed to make an article using the Source Editor instead of the Visual Editor.

Not all of the links will work here yet: since the wiki's still small some things like redirects won't exist as examples.

This table was originally posted on the Rimworld Wiki, which is another MediaWiki project very similar to this one. Some links have been changed to make the table function on this wiki.

The original page is here for those who want to see it. See also the MediaWiki reference card for the official Wikimedia version.

Wiki markup cheatsheet
Works anywhere in the text
Description	You type	You get
Italics, bold, and both	''italics'', '''bold''', and '''''both'''''	italics, bold, and both
Link to another page	[[Adopt Page]] [[Help:Editing and markup cheatsheet]]	Adopt Page Help:Editing and markup cheatsheet
"Pipe" a link to change what the link looks like without changing where it points.	[[Adopt Page|This is also a link to the Adopt Page Article]]	This is also a link to the Adopt Page Article
Link to a section	[[Items#Valuable Items]] [[Items#Valuable Items|Valuable Items]]	Items#Valuable Items Valuable Items
Red link red links in articles help by showing desired pages to be created	[[a red link]]	a red link
Signature sign your contributions when posting to a talk page	~~~~ do not sign in an article, only on talk pages	Username (talk) 14:28, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
Plain website	https://www.mediawiki.org	https://www.mediawiki.org
Link a website	[https://www.mediawiki.org]	[1]
Link and name a website	[https://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki]	MediaWiki
Strike your talk page comment to show your previous comment is outdated	<s>This page is missing important information.</s>	This page is missing important information.
Hide text somewhere for editors Essentially leaving comments in an article's source code	<!--Check the help section for assistance with templates!-->
Show an image for uploading, see the Help:Managing files	[[File:Bedroll east.png|thumb|Caption]]	No working example yet. File:Bedroll east.png Caption
Add a page to a category	[[Category:Category name]] place near the bottom of a page	shows "Category name" in a bar at bottom when the page is previewed or saved
Link to a category or file without adding the file to the page / page to the category	[[:Category:Locations]] [[:File:Medicine.png]]	Category:Locations No working example yet. File:Medicine.png
Works only at the beginning of lines
Description	You type	You get
Redirect to another page redirects must be placed at the start of the first line	#REDIRECT [[About RimWorld]]	No working example yet. ↪ About RimWorld
Redirect to a section of another page	#REDIRECT [[About RimWorld#The tactics engine]]	No working example yet. ↪ About RimWorld#The tactics engine
Section headings a Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article. The Table of Contents can be disabled by writing __NOTOC__ at the beginning of an article.	==Level 2== ===Level 3=== ====Level 4==== =====Level 5===== ======Level 6====== do not use  =Level 1=  as it is for page titles	Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
Bulleted list This is used when replying on a talk page, to make it easier to follow conversations.	* One * Two ** Two point one * Three	One Two Two point one Three
Numbered list	# One # Two ## Two point one # Three	One Two Two point one Three
Indenting text On Wikipedia, this is used when replying on a talk page, to make it easier to follow conversations. For the Poliwager Adoptables wiki, we use the bulleted list instead.	no indent (normal) :first indent ::second indent :::third indent ::::fourth indent	no indent (normal) first indent second indent third indent fourth indent