Wikipedia Cheatsheet

Description You type You get
Italic text ''italic'' italic
Bold text '''bold''' bold
Bold and italic '''''bold & italic''''' bold & italic
Internal link
(within Wikipedia)
 [[Name of page]]
[[Name of page|Text to display]] 		Name of page
Text to display
External link
(to other websites)
 [http://www.example.org Text to display]
[http://www.example.org]
http://www.example.org 		Text to display
http://www.example.org
http://www.example.org
Redirect to another page #REDIRECT [[Target page]] Target page
Footnotes/References
Numbering is generated automatically.
To create a footnote or reference, use this format:
Article text.<ref name="test">[http://www.example.org Link text], additional text.</ref> 		Article text.[1]
To reuse the same note, reuse the name with a trailing slash:
Article text.<ref name="test" />
To display notes, add either of these lines to the References section
<references/>
{{tl}}
  1. ↑ Link text, additional text.
Section headings[2]
A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.
 == Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======

Contents

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4
Level 5
Bulleted list[2]
Empty lines between list items discouraged, (see numbered lists).
 * One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three
  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Numbered list[2]
Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.
 # One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three
  1. One
  2. Two
    1. Two point one
  3. Three
Thumbnail image [[Image:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption text]] Caption text
Caption text
For Talk Pages
Signature ~~~~ Your username 23:18,
11 Februar 2012 (UTC)
Indenting Text[2] no indent (normal)
:first indent
::second indent
:::third indent 		no indent (normal)
first indent
second indent
third indent
  1. ↑ Link text, additional text.
  2. ↑ a b c d Applies only at the very beginning of lines.