Wikipedia:Tutorial (historical)/Formatting
Wiki markup
Bold and italics
When you are writing text, it requires different functions than in a normal word processor.
The wiki can accept some html tags, but most people use the built-in wiki markup language, which is designed for ease of editing. The most commonly used wiki tags are bold and italics. Bolding and italicizing is done by surrounding a word or phrase with multiple apostrophes:
- ''italics'' is rendered as italics.
- '''bold''' is rendered as bold.
- '''''bolded italics''''' is rendered as bolded italics.
It is a Wikipedia convention to bold the subject of an article when mentioned in the article. For example, the article Northwest Ordinance starts:
"The Northwest Ordinance became law on July 13..."
Headings and subheadings
Headings and subheadings are an easy way to improve the organization of an article. If you can see two or more distinct topics being discussed, you can break up your article by inserting a heading for each section.
Headings can be created like this:
- ==Top level heading==
- ===Subheading===
- ====Another level down====
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