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Revision as of 14:21, 10 February 2018

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 the Computer History wiki)

[[name of page]]
[[name of page|display text]]

name of page
display text

External link

(to other websites)

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

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

Sign your posts
on talk pages

~~~~

Your username 10:16,
29 March 2024 (UTC)

Items below only apply at the beginning of a line
Headings

A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.

== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4
Level 5
Indented items

(used mostly on Talk: pages)

: foo
:: bar

foo
bar
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

Tables

{| class="wikitable"
! Table !! Prototype
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | Headers
|-
| aa || rowspan="2" | yy
|-
| bb
|-
| cc || zz
|}

produces:

Table Prototype
Headers
aa yy
bb
cc zz

Images

[[Image:Pdp-11-40.jpg|thumb|Caption text]]

produces:

Caption text