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Basic formatting

• For more advanced formatting help see m:MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing overview.

For italics enclose in two single quotes: ''italic words''	italic words
For bold enclose in three single quotes: '''bold words'''	bold words
For bulleted lists, add an asterisk * at the beginning of each line: *Bullet one *Bullet two *Bullet three	Bullet one Bullet two Bullet three
For a numbered list, add a # at the beginning of each line: #Item one #Item two #Item three	Item one Item two Item three
To make a link within the wiki (or to certain other wikis such as Wikipedia), enclose it in double brackets. Use a pipe to link to a different page than what is displayed. * [[Esperanto]] * [[User:Muke]] * [[User:Muke|Muke]] * [[Wikipedia:Lingua Franca Nova]]	Esperanto User:Muke Muke Wikipedia:Lingua Franca Nova (Red links are to nonexistent pages, blue links are to pages on other wikis.)
To add a page to a category, just add an ordinary link to the category anywhere on the page. The link will not be displayed inline—it'll show at the bottom of the page—and the page will appear in the category listing. [[Category:Conlangs]] If you actually want to link to the category, and not just put the page into it, add a colon to the beginning of the link: [[:Category:Conlangs]]
To make a link to a website, enclose it in single brackets. It will be automatically numbered. To title a link instead, add the title after a space. * [http://www.google.com] * [http://www.google.com Google]	[1] Google

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Tables

Table formatting:

• {| begins a table
• |} ends it.
• Standard cells begin with |
• heading cells with !
• format options go at the beginning of the cell, separated by |
• |- starts a new row

Example table:

 
  {| border=1
  ! heading cell
  |align=center| centered entry
  | third column
  |-
  ! second row heading
  | entry two, noncentered
  | third column, second row
  |}
  

It looks like this:

heading cell	centered entry	third column
second row heading	entry two, noncentered	third column, second row

The wiki format can also be entered with a whole row at once, allowing for example easy interlinears:

 
  {| 
  ! nemšé || javmb || morjé-'f
  |-
  | part  || deep  || sea-GEN
  |}
  

displaying:

nemšé	javmb	morjé-'f
part	deep	sea-GEN

The double pipes || delimit cells or headings (whether it will be one or the other inherits from the first cell on the line; start a new line to change types).

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Interwiki links

You can make links to other wikis just like you make links to pages on this wiki. To make a link to another wiki, prefix the destination with the Wiki's keyword and a colon (:).

Useful prefixes

• Link to Wikipedia with the prefix Wikipedia: (example: Wikipedia:Solresol)
• Link to Ill Bethisad Wiki with the prefix IBWiki: (example: IBWiki:Brithenig)
• Link to ConlangWiki with the prefix ConlangWiki: (example: ConlangWiki:Khangathyagon)

(To suggest a new wiki to link to, contact Muke.)