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| − | '''Links'''
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| − | * Refer to a [[wiki]] page by enclosing it's name in square brackets: ''[wiki]''. Case is not significant, spaces are fine. Literal square brackets must be escaped: ''[[[[[''.
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| − | * URLs are recognized automatically: http://your.site/contents.html
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| − | * URLs in square brackets will be shown as a reference [http://www.aolserver.com/]], or as inline images if they have the extension .gif or .jpg. You can also name an external link by putting a space and some string after the URL, like so: [http://www.aolserver.com/ an external link to your site].
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| − | '''Emphasis'''
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| − | * Surround text with pairs of single quotes to make it ''display in italic''
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| − | * Surround text with triple single quotes to make it '''display in bold'''
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| − | To emphasise more than set of words per line, break the paragraph into multiple
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| − | lines. They will be concatenated together for display.
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| − | '''Lists'''
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| − | List items begin with three spaces, a token followed by a space, then the content of the list item, all on one line. Three types of list are supported, here are the tokens:
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| − | * Bulleted lists use a '''*''' (star) token
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| − | * Numbered lists use the number-period '''1.''' token. Just use the number ''1'', the items will be auto numbered.
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| − | * Definition lists use the definition followed by a colon, as token: '''mydef: '''
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| − | '''Formatting text'''
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| − | You can blockquote indent text by starting the line out with a colon and whitespace, like so:
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| − | : this should be indented.
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| − | You can get a line break (basically, a <br/>) using three tildes, like so:
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| − | this should ~~~ appear on two lines
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| − | which looks like this:
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| − | : this should ~~~ appear on two lines
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| − | To get literal (preformatted) text, start the line with one or more whitespace:
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| − | proc example {foo bar} {
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| − | puts "You can't go wrong with examples!"
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| − | }
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| − | '''Horizontal rules'''
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| − | 4 or more dashes (''----'') on a line by themselves create a horizontal rule.
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| − | '''Adding new pages'''
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| − | To add a new page:~~~
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| − | 1. when editing a page, create a link to a new wiki page (using square brackets around the ''[New Page Name]'')
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| − | 1. ''Save'' the page you've edited
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| − | 1. when the page is redisplayed after being saved, click on the square bracket (on either side) of your new link
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| − | 1. you will be taken to an empty page with the title given by the link in the previous page, e.g. ''New Page Name''
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| − | 1. click on the link at the bottom of the page (to the right of the ''Last Updated:'' timestamp) for ''Edit '''New Page Name''' ''
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| − | 1. now you can edit the newly created page
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| − | Practice your wiki skills on the [[graffiti]] page!
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