The WikiWikiWeb's goal is to allow people to easily and quickly add content. Simply typing text would suffice, but people also want to make their words appear nice with enhancements like bold text, italic text, µµsmaller textµµ, bigger text, typewriter-like text, headings, lists, tables, pictures, etc. We want flexible options but we want it to remain simple. Therefore we use 'Markup', or special text used to mark other bits of text with characteristics.

The markup rules for this Wiki are broken into two categories: simple and extended. This page explains the simple rules. The extended rules can be found at ExtendedWikiMarkup. To practice using these markups, edit the SandBox page. You can also view the source text of any page by clicking on the EditThisPage link near the bottom.

Paragraphs

• Separate text into paragraphs with blank lines
• Force a line break using three percent signs %%%
• Indent text by beginning a line with spaces or tabs

Headlines

• use an exclamation mark ! at the beginning of a line to create a small headline
• !! for medium headlines
• !!! for large headlines

Text Style

• Emphasized or Italic : Surround the text with two single quotes on each end ( ' ' ).
• Bold: Surround the text with two underscores (__) or two asterisks (**) on each end.
• Bigger: Surround with double hash marks (##)
• µµSmallerµµ: Surround with double mu marks (µµ)
• typewriter-like font: Surround with double equal signs (==)

Lists

• Start a line with an asterisk * to begin a list
• Two asterisks will indent the list further
• Three asterisks even more.

1. Use # instead for numbered lists
1. These can have additional levels, too.
2. You can mix asterisks and hash marks.
2. However subsequent list points should start
   with the same mix of * and #

HyperLinks

• The simplest hyperlink is a WikiWord created by StringingWordsTogether. See also: CamelCase or BumpyText

• To create a hyperlink that is not a WikiWord, enclose the text in [square brackets].

• You can prevent a bad WikiWord being formed or show a plural form with square brackets:
• Bad[WikiWord], Plural [WikiWord]s, This[BumpyText]Rules
• BadWikiWord, Plural WikiWords, ThisBumpyTextRules

• Valid internet addresses beginning with 'http://' will be made into a hyperlink automatically (like http://www.atamadison.com)

• To give a nicer title to a hyperlink
1. Surround with square brackets and separate with the pipe character ( | )
• [Taekwondo | http://www.atamadison.com]
• Taekwondo
2. Surround with square brackets and use quotes around the title
• ["VersionTracker" http://www.versiontracker.com]
• VersionTracker
3. WikiWords can be given a different name the same way
• ["Different Name" BumpyText]
• Different Name

• To prevent a WikiLikeWord, http://type.address, or anything inside square brackets from becomeing a hyperlink, then prepend with an exclamation mark or a tilde:
• !NoHyperLink, ~NoHyperLink
• ![no hyperlink], !http://nolink.org/

Pictures

• Include an image into a page by enclosing its absolute web address in square brackets, like [http://www.example.com/pics/image.png]
• The referenced file name must end with one of: .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .gif