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Vinismo uses a special code called Wiki markup for formatting the text and images in an article. The Wiki markup used while editing pages will determine how the text looks and what links and images are in the page.
This is a simplified guide. For more detailed help, please refer to the Help section, especially Help:Formatting.
edit Text formatting
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Bold text is surrounded by three apostrophes. | '''Bold text''' is surrounded by three apostrophes. |
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Italic text is surrounded by two apostrophes. | ''Italic text'' is surrounded by two apostrophes. |
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For a bullet-point list, put each list item on its own line, with a star in front of it:
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For a bullet-point list, put each list item on its own line, with a star in front of it: *Winken |
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A numbered list is similar to a bullet-point list, but each item starts with a hash symbol instead:
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A numbered list is similar to a bullet-point list, but each item starts with a hash symbol sign instead: #Tinker |
edit Making links
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You can link to an article like Main Page by adding the article title with two square brackets around it. | You can link to an article like [[Main Page]] by adding the article title with two square brackets around it. |
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You can give the link alternate text, like go to the main page, by adding a vertical bar after the title, and then the text you want to use. | You can give the link alternate text, like [[Main Page|go to the main page]], by adding a vertical bar after the title, and then the text you want to use. |
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Links in different namespaces, like Vinismo:FAQ or User:Evan, work the same way. | Links in different namespaces, like [[Vinismo:FAQ]] or [[User:Evan]], work the same way. |
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Using a vertical bar at the end of the link (but before the closing brackets) will hide the namespace, like FAQ or Evan. | Using a vertical bar at the end of the link (but before the closing brackets) will hide the namespace, like [[Vinismo:FAQ|]] or [[User:Evan|]]. |
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It's OK to put in links to a page that doesn't exist yet. | It's OK to put in links to [[a page that doesn't exist yet]]. |
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Putting a URL like http://www.google.com/ into text makes it into an external link automatically. | Putting a URL like http://www.google.com/ into text makes it into an external link automatically. |
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You can give an external link more readable text, like Google, by using a single square bracket, the URL, a space, the title you want to use, and a closing square bracket. | You can give an external link more readable text, like [http://www.google.com/ Google], by using a single square bracket, the URL, a space, the title you want to use, and a closing square bracket. |
edit Special links
Some links to special namespaces appear not in the article itself, but in the Other languages sidebar. These are used for linking to Vinismo articles on the same topic in different language versions. Such interlanguage links have the format [[xx:Article]], where "xx" is the code for the language being linked to.
Interwiki links have the format [[OtherWiki:ArticleTitle]]. See Help:Interwiki linking for more details.
