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This page provides a basic overview of wiki markup. For a more detailed guide to wiki editing, please see the "how to edit a page" article on Wikipedia.

Editing

To start editing a page, click on the "edit" link at the top. This will bring you to a text box containing the article. Once you have edited the article, you can write a short note in the summary box to describe the changes you've made.

Logged-in users have the option of marking a change to a page as a minor edit. This should only be used for spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearrangement of text. If text is added, removed or changed, it should not be marked as a minor edit.

Please preview before saving. Press the "Show preview" button to see how your changes will look before you make them permanent. Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click "Save" and your changes will be immediately applied to the article.


What to type:

Result:

To emphasize text, you can use the following:

''italic'' 
'''bold''' 
'''''bold and italic''''' 


Which formats text like this:

italic

bold

bold and italic


Headings and sub-headings can be made by typing:

==Heading==

===Subheading===

====Sub-subheading====

=====Sub-sub-subheading=====


Which produces headings like this:

Heading

Subheading

Sub-subheading

Sub-sub-subheading

To create a link to an article, place double square brackets around it:

[[FraggleScript Basics]]


This results in the following link:


FraggleScript Basics


To make the text in the link different to the page title, you can use a piped link:

[[FraggleScript Basics|Scripting]]


Which causes the link to be displayed like this:


Scripting


For external links, only single square brackets are used and there is no need to use a pipe:

[http://legacy.newdoom.com Legacy Homepage]


This creates an external link.


Legacy Homepage


To place an article in a category, add:

[[Category:Documentation]]


This creates a category link at the bottom of the page.


To use bullet points, begin your line with an asterisk:

* Point 1
* Point 2
* Point 3


This creates a bulleted list:

  • Point 1
  • Point 2
  • Point 3


To indent your text, begin the line with a colon:

: indented text
:: further indented
::: even further


Displays the text as:

indented text
further indented
even further


FraggleScript or console commands can be displayed by starting lines with a single space:

script 100
{
   startscript(1);
}


The text will be formatted exactly as typed:

script 100
{
   startscript(1); 
}


To sign your posts on discussion pages, use four tilde characters:

~~~~


This produces a user link with the time and date:


DooMAD 22:32, 24 November 2005 (GMT)



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