"Wiki wiki" means "quick" in Hawai'ian.
All you really need to know is:
- To edit any page click on the Edit. You should do that right now, and read the source code of this page. It will make more sense.
- You get italics by surrounding words with two slashes on either side like this.
- You get bold text by using two asterisks on either side.
- And, bold italics by using both.
- You get monospaced text by using two hash signs on either side.
- You get bullets by using an asterisk * at the start of the line.
- To have a paragraph in plain monospaced font, start it with {{{ and end it with }}}:
this is a poem for sure about monospacing i wrote in purple velour but couldn't find a rhyme for monospacing
You separate paragraphs with an extra blank line. Example:
I am a paragraph.
I am a paragraph too. We're just very small paragraphs.
- You can get horizontal rules with four or more dashes like this:
- To create hyperlinks you just capitalize the words and string them together. Let's say you want to create a page about how Steve Wainstead eats worms. All you have to do is capitalize each word and string them together like this: SteveWainsteadEatsLiveWorms?. If the page does not exist yet a question mark appears after the link, inviting you to create the page: ThisPageShouldNotExist?. (And please don't ruin the example by creating one.)
- To link to pages outside the Wiki, you can just type in the URL and
Wiki will link it for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/ - To put images in, just provide the hyperlink in brackets like this: [http://www.yourhost.yourdomain/images/picture.png]. Image URLs not in brackets will just appear as hyperlinks to the image.
- Now you are ready to begin
adding pages.
A WikiWikiWeb is meant to be fast and easy to edit. It has very simple
markup that you can read about in Help:TextFormattingRules.
If you don't like the size of the text editing window you get, you can change it. See UserPreferences.