Each page inside a WikiWikiWeb can be edited easily, and as writing a page should be very easy to accomplish, there are only a few rules, which are not all that senseless and annoying as the ones of the HyperTextMarkupLanguage?.

Click on the EditThisPage?Link at the bottom of this page or else all you read here won't make much sense to you.

Paragraphs

• separate paragraphs inside the text with empty lines
• use three percent signs %%% to enforce a line break
• if you prepend text with spaces or tabs it will get indented

!! Headlines

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

text style

• if you want to emphasize text enclose it in two single-quotes '' (usually looks italic)
• text gets bold with two underscores __ (or if enclosed with two asterisks **)
• to make text big enclose it in hash characters ##
• you can get µµ smaller text µµ using "µµ" likewise
• a typewrite like font will be used if you enclose text in two equal == signs

Lists

• start a line with an asterisk * to begin a list
• use # instead for numerated lists
1. you can create sublists
2. subsequent list points should start with the same mix of * and #

HyperLinks

• just enter a WikiWord inside your text to create a new HyperLink
• enclose some words in square brackets? to create a HyperLink inside the WikiWikiWeb which is not made up of a valid WikiWord
• any valid internet address (starting with http://) like http://www.example.com/ inside the text will be made clickable automagically
• enclose a www address or a WikiLink inside square brackets [freshmeat] and assign it a neat title using quotation marks or the | character
• [title | http://example.com]
• [WikiWord "title"] or ["title for" WikiLink]
• if you don't want a WikiWord or a http://www-address (or [anything] inside square brackets) to become a HyperLink then just prepend it with a exclamation mark or a tilde
• !NoHyperLink, ~NoHyperLink
• ![no hyperlink], !http://nolink.org/

Tables with |

Pictures

• to include an image into a page enclose its absolute www-address in square brackets, like [http://www.example.com/pics/image.png]
• alternatively you could use the ImageUploading? function, see EditThisPage?

More markup

Please see the page about ExtendedWikiMarkup, if you'd like to know a bit more about available markup.

dash sign link titles and tables

Q: Links with vertical bars within tables glitch like this:
| [test link | http://www.yahoo.com/] |

A: Use the new link entitling scheme using ["double quotes" ExtendedWikiMarkup] to avoid this. Double quotes is no WikiStandard? and very specific to ErfurtWiki but handy.