Help:Editing

Start your sections as follows:

New section

Subsection

Sub-subsection

== New section ==

=== Subsection ===

==== Sub-subsection ====

A single newline has no effect on the layout. These can be used to separate sentences within a paragraph. Some editors find that this aids editing and improves the diff function.

But an empty line starts a new paragraph.

A single newline
has no effect on the layout. 
These can be used to separate
sentences within a paragraph.
Some editors find that this aids editing
and improves the ''diff'' function.

But an empty line
starts a new paragraph.

You can break lines<br>
without starting a new paragraph.

• Lists are easy to do:
  • start every line with a star
    • more stars means deeper levels

* Lists are easy to do:
** start every line with a star
*** more stars means deeper levels

1. Numbered lists are also good
   1. very organized
   2. easy to follow

# Numbered lists are also good
## very organized
## easy to follow

• You can even do mixed lists
  1. and nest them
     • like this

* You can even do mixed lists
*# and nest them
*#* like this

Definition list 

list of definitions

item 

the item's definition

; Definition list : list of definitions
; item : the item's definition

• One item per line, no hard NEWLINE.

A colon indents a line or paragraph.

A manual newline starts a new paragraph.

• This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on Talk pages.

: A colon indents a line or paragraph.
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.

IF a line starts with a space THEN
  it will be formatted exactly 
    as typed;
  in a fixed-width font;
  lines won't wrap;
ENDIF
this is useful for:
  * pasting preformatted text;
  * algorithm descriptions;
  * program source code;
  * ASCII art and chemical structures;

WARNING If you make it wide, you force the whole page to be wide and hence less readable, especially for people who use lower resolutions. Never start ordinary lines with spaces.

 IF a line starts with a space THEN
   it will be formatted exactly 
     as typed;
   in a fixed-width font;
   lines won't wrap;
 ENDIF
 this is useful for:
   * pasting preformatted text;
   * algorithm descriptions;
   * program source code;
   * ASCII art and chemical structures;

<center>Centered text.</center>

and this is below it.

Mainly useful for separating threads on Talk pages.

A horizontal dividing line: this is above it
----
and this is below it. 

• First letter of target is automatically capitalized.
• Internally spaces are automatically represented as underscores (typing an underscore has the same effect as typing a space, but is not recommended).

Thus the link above is to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport, which is the article with the name "Public transport". See also Wikipedia:Canonization.

London has public transport.

Wikipedia:World Heritage Sites#New Zealand
is an example link to a section name on a page, see == headers == above.

answers.
(This is a piped link.)

Same target, different name: 
[[wiki FAQ|answers]]

Endings are blended 
into the link: [[sandbox]]s

you should sign it. You can do this by adding three tildes for your user name:

Thrasher

or four for user name plus date/time:

Thrasher 08:10 Oct 5, 2002 (UTC)

When adding a comment to a Talk page,
you should sign it. You can do this by
adding three tildes for your user name:
: ~~~
or four for user name plus date/time:
: ~~~~

exist yet.

• You can create it by clicking on the link.

• To create a new page:
  1. Create a link to it on some other page.
  2. Save that page.
  3. Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing.
• After creating a page, search for its title and make sure that everyone correctly links to it.

[[How to hack gentoo]] is a page 
that doesn't exist yet.

[[Gentoo-Portage_Wiki:How_does_one_edit_a_page]] is this page.

[[Gentoo-Portage:net-im/gaim|net-im/gaim]]

Redirect one article title to another by putting text like this in its first line. Note that redirects to sections do not work yet. #REDIRECT [[example#example]] will redirect to the example page, but not to any particular section on it. It is possible this feature will be implemented in future, so such redirects could be used now for future compatibility.

#REDIRECT [[example]]

This is an unnamed link. [1]
This is a plain URL: http://www.nupedia.com

External link: 
[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]
This is an unnamed link. [http://www.nupedia.com]
This is a plain URL: http://www.nupedia.com

• In the URL all symbols must be among: A-Z a-z 0-9 ._\/~%-