Handy Wikipedia Cheatsheet

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Everyone can contribute to the free encylopedia Wikipedia. This is possible because Wikipedia is a wiki: Simply click on the link “Edit this page“ on top of an article and start writing.

This cheatsheet shows the basic formatting tricks and is very handy.

Wiki text

Result

”italic”

italic

”’bold”’

bold

””’bold and italic””’

bold and italic

==heading==
===level 2===
====level 3====
=====level 4=====

Headings in different sizes

[[Link to another page]]

[[Link|different title]]

Internal Link to another page

on the wiki

http://www.example.org
[http://www.example.org Text]

External link

Link with description

[[fr:Page en français]]

Interwiki link to french Wikipedia (appears under “languages“)

[[Category:Example]]

Add article to category “example“

—-

horizontal line

* one
* two
* three

Bullet list

# one
# two
# three

Numbered list

[[Image:File.jpg|Text]]

[[Image:File.jpg|frame|Text]]
[[Image:File.jpg|thumb|Text]]

Image with alternative text

Image aligned right with caption
Thumbnail

[[Media:File.ogg]]

Download link

{{Name}}

Include template “Name”

–~~~

Signature (Link to userpage)

–~~~~

Signature with timestamp (date & time)

#REDIRECT [[Other article]]

Redirect one title to another article

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