User:Doldrums/Quick guide

Description You type You get
Applies anywhere
Italicise text

''italic''

italic

Bold text

'''bold'''

bold

Bold and italic

'''''bold & italic'''''

bold & italic

Internal link

(within Wikinews)

[[Main Page]]
[[Main Page|Main Page by another name]]

Main Page
Main Page by another name

Links to other Wikis

(see Interwiki map)

[[w:China|China]]

China

External link

(to other websites)

[http://www.example.com]
[http://www.example.com display text]
http://www.example.com

[1]
display text
http://www.example.com

Escape wiki markup

with ''markup''
<nowiki>without ''markup''</nowiki>

with markup
without ''markup''

Applies only at the beginning of the line
Headings

of different sizes

==level 1==
===level 2===
====level 3====
=====level 4=====

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4
Bullet list

* one
* two
** two point one
* three

  • one
  • two
    • two point one
  • three
Numbered list

# one
# two
## two point one
# three

  1. one
  2. two
    1. two point one
  3. three
Definition list

;Definition
:item 1
:item 2

Definition
item 1
item 2
Thumbnail image

[[Image:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption text]]

Caption text
Commonly used Templates
Date {{date|January 1, 2006}} January 1, 2006
Dateline (use only for Original reporting) {{dateline|date=January 1, 2006
|location=Cairo, Egypt}}
January 1, 2006
Cairo, Egypt
Sources {{source

|url=http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56262
|title=Climate change to hurt poor people most
|author=
|pub=IRIN News
|date=November 6, 2006}}

"Climate change to hurt poor people most" — IRIN News, November 6, 2006
Related Wikinews articles {{wikinews

|title=Coordinated terrorist attack hits London
|date=July 7, 2005}}

"Coordinated terrorist attack hits London" — Wikinews, July 7, 2005
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