Help:Markup reference

This may eventually grow into something worth moving into a new "Help:" ... but it has a hell of a long way to go first.

In this page you'll learn about Mediawiki markup. Mediawiki is the software behind Wikipedia (for which it was created), Camera-wiki.org, and many other wikis; you may find what follows familiar from one of these. And if you're used to HTML or XHTML, what the explanation will be easy to follow, as Mediawiki is a preprocessor for XHTML and its markup is thus similar.

Text formatting

What it looks like	What you type	Comments
Italics: Asahi Camera is helpful	''Asahi Camera'' is helpful	Two (plain) apostrophes to start, two to finish.
Bold: It is marked SP	It is marked '''SP'''	Three (plain) apostrophes to start, three to finish.
Bold italics: It is marked SP	It is marked '''''SP'''''	Five (plain) apostrophes to start, five to finish.

Useful characters

Its name	Copy this and paste it	or type this in
non-breaking space	[N/A]	 
non-breaking hyphen	‑	‑
en dash	–	–
em dash	—	—
less than	[N/A]	<
greater than	[N/A]	>