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Wikis use their own syntax (markup) for creating formatting text formatting. Below is a list of common syntax you can use to format your pages. A more extensive guide to wiki editing can be found [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing on Wikimedia's site].

* {| width="70%"! What you see! What you type|-| ''Italic Text'' | <nowiki>''Your Text''</nowiki> (2 apostrophes)<br>* |-| '''Bold Text''' | <nowiki>'''Your Text'''</nowiki> (3 apostrophes)<br>* |-| '''''Bold Italic Text''''' | <nowiki>'''''Your Text'''''</nowiki> (5 apostrophes)<br>* |-| <u>Underline</u> | <nowiki><u>Your Text</u></nowiki>|-| <strike>Strike out</strike>| <nowiki><strike>Strike out</strike></nowiki>|-| Superscripts and subscripts: X², H₂O| <nowiki>X², H₂O</nowiki>|}

===Section HeadersText Layout===To keep pages readable and organized, separate the text into sections. Section headers do this nicely, and are automatically added to the table of contents. Headers should be hierarchical and descending, as needed. There are several levels of headers, and the text so offset by equals signs will display in descending point size and font colour.* Heading 1 <nowiki>==Your heading==</nowiki><br>* Heading 2 <nowiki>===Your heading===</nowiki><br>* Heading 3 <nowiki>====Your heading====</nowiki><br>

{| width="70%"! What you see! What you type|-| :Indented text| <nowiki>: Indented text.</nowiki>|-| <center>Centered text</center>| <nowiki><center>Centered text</center></nowiki>|-| <blockquote>The single equal sign is ''not'blockquote' used in articles'' command produces block quotations, typically by surrounding them with whitespace. It</blockquote>| <nowiki><blockquote>The '''s used for the formatting for the title of pages. Use the double equal signs for the first heading and replace any heading hierarchies on article pages that might use the single oneblockquote''' command produces block quotations, typically by surrounding them with whitespace.</blockquote></nowiki>|}

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Turns ===Section Headers===To keep pages organized, separate the text into:<blockquote>* Item One* Item Two** Item Two sections. Section headers do this nicely, and are automatically added to the table of contents. Headers should be hierarchical and a half*** Item two descending, as needed. There are several levels of headers formed by equals signs that will display in descending point size and three quarters* Item Three</blockquote>font colour.

====Soft Returns====The wiki script ignores single returnsequal sign is ''not'' used in articles. It's automatically used for formatting the title of pages. For instance, if you type something that looks like this in Use the double equal signs for the edit box:first heading.

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===Internal LinksSoft Returns===An internal site link use two brackets <nowiki>[[ ]]</nowiki> on either side of the title, with an optional title (if specified, separate with The wiki script ignores single returns. If you wish to create a | character). <nowiki>[[Topic|Link Title]]</nowiki>new paragraph you need to hit return twice to leave one blank line. If you add link brackets want to the same article currently shown, the link will turn '''bold''' instead list something directly underneather another line of into a link. It's also possible text then you need to modify the link title without changing the link by adding characters after the right side brackets (<nowiki>]]use </nowiki>) like this: <nowikibr>[[Topic|Link Title]]ing</nowiki>.

====Linking to Categories and Templates====Linking to [[Help:Category|categories]] can be helpful, since the search option These boxes will not generally display a category page even if that's go as wide as the most useful page for text so to control their desired information. It's also helpful for newer wiki users who may not know width you will need to scroll to the bottom of a page to find the automated category linksuse <nowiki><br></nowiki>.

The problem is of course that adding the "<nowiki>[[ ]]</nowiki>" around a category name will only add that page into the category, so to create a clickable link to a category and avoiding this, typeAre you used for: ''"<nowiki>[[:Category:xxxxx]]</nowiki>"'' where "xxxxx" is the name of the Category.

====InterWiki Creating Links====Links between the main {{wl|[http://www.diablowiki.net/ Diablo Wiki]}} and other DiabloWikis like {{wl|[http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/ Diablo 2 Wiki]}} can use a shortcut called "[[Template:Iw|InterWiki]]". It's a [[Help:Template|template]] that makes it quick Creating links is very simple and easy to make a link across wikis. You can use it like this:<blockquote><pre>{{iw|Article_Name Article Name]}}</pre></blockquote> Will display like this: {{iw|Article_Name Article Name}} (mind you, this article does not exist). The first time the article name is written, underscores '''MUST''' be used. The second time does not need to be the exact article name as you can write it in plural or singular, or perhaps a completely different word.  ====Linking to Images====Sometimes you might want to link directly to an image instead of embedding it on the page. If so there are two ways methods to do this:* Use a direct, external, link to the image urlso: [http://www.diablowiki.net/images/2/24/Jay_Wilson.jpg Image]* Use an internal wiki link to the image page: [[:Image:Jay_Wilson.jpg| Image]]The former way works exactly like any external site link (read more about that later), for the link title, URL or a little bracketed link. The latter works just like Category Links, with a ":" in front, outside sources and with the possibility to change title with a pipe ("|"). All about [[Help:Image| uploading, adding and organising]] images in the wiki.   ===External Links===External links are made similarly to internal links. The difference is that it uses single brackets (<nowiki>[ ]</nowiki>) and naturally also must contain an external URL. Another difference between internal and external links is that instead of a pipe ("|") to separate the site link source with an alternative title, it uses a simple space. This naturally means that it isn't possible to link to pages that uses spaces in for content inside the URL. It's easy to distinguish external links in the wiki by the "external link icon" that appears on those links ([http://www.diii.net/ example]). There are three types of links that can be used; either a clickable URL, a clickable number in brackets, or a clickable link title. The last one work very similar to internal links. Do note that it isn't possible to add letters at the end of an external link to make it part of the link title. The entire link title needs to be within the brackets.  ====Regular URL Link====Writing the following:<blockquote><pre>http://www.diii.net/</pre></blockquote>Will display like this: http://www.diii.net/ In cases where it's needed to show the whole URL, just write it out in the document, and it will automatically be parsed.  ====Numbered Link====Writing the following:<blockquote><pre>[http://www.diii.net/]</pre></blockquote>Will display like this: [http://www.diii.net/] This is a numbered link that is excellent to use when sourcing other pages{{WikiTitle}}. It will be numbered from how many similar links are on a document, so the first such link is <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>, and the third one is <nowiki>[3]</nowiki>.  ====Link in Title====Writing the following:<blockquote><pre>[http://www.diii.net/ Diii.net with custom title]</pre></blockquote>Will display like this: [http://www.diii.net/ Diii.net with custom title] This is naturally the most commonly used link, and is used much like the internal links. 

It only works for simple links that does not contain any odd characters like {| width="?", 100%"! colspan=", or 3"&", |Internal Links|-! What you're Linking to! What you see! What you can use the type|-| Article| [[Template:wl|Wiki Link templateMonk]] like this:| <blockquotenowiki>[[Monk]]<pre/nowiki>{{wl|-| Category|[http[:Category://www.diii.net/ TitleClasses]]}}| </prenowiki>[[:Category:Classes]]</blockquotenowiki>Will display like this|-| Category without the word 'category' displaying| [[:Category: {{wlClasses| Classes]]|<nowiki>[[http:Category:Classes |Classes]]</nowiki>|-| Section within an article| [[Monk#Background| Monk Background]]| <nowiki>[[Monk#Background]]</www.diii.net/ Title]}}nowiki>|-| Link to section with own textFor more complex URLs, full html formatting is required| Her stats can be [[Monk| seen here]]. Just add | Her stats can be <nowiki>"<span class="plainlinks">"[[Monk| seen here]]</nowiki> directly in front of your |-| To merge link, and text| Fighting against [[Monk]]s| Fighting against <nowiki>"[[Monk]]s</spannowiki>"|-| Between the main DiabloWiki and Diablo 2 Wiki| {{iw|Amazon Amazon}}| <nowiki>{{iw|Amazon Amazon}}</nowiki> directly after for the same effect as above.|-| Directly to an image (not embeded on page)===General Linking Guidelines===When you know how to make a link in the code, it| [[:Image:Jay_Wilson.jpg| here's also imperative that you know how to use this knowledge in the wikiJay Wilson]]| <nowiki>[[:Image:Jay_Wilson. Itjpg| here's quite simple on the whole:Jay Wilson]]</nowiki>|-* | Link any word that has an article with the same name in the wikito a DiabloWiki template| Unknown| Unknown|-|-| External page as url| http://www.incgamers.com* Only link words that would make the article you are reading more clear in context for the link| <nowiki>http://www.incgamers. Sometimes it might have an opposite effect if linking the word com</nowiki>|-! colspan="stash3" when it's not used to describe the ingame |External Links|-| External page as a piece of text| News at [http://www.incgamers.com IncGamers].| News at <nowiki>[stashhttp://www.incgamers.com IncGamers]</nowiki>.|-| External page as a number| [http://www.incgamers.com], but perhaps a general description of a cache of some sort used in a novel| <nowiki>[http://www. Know when NOT to linkincgamers.com]</nowiki>|-| External page without blue icon* Only link the first of the same word mentioned in an article| {{wl|[http://diablo.incgamers.com/ Diablo: IncGamers]}}** If an article is long, or has several sections, you should link it so that it's easy to get to the link, wherever you are| <nowiki>{{wl|[http://diablo. One link per section is a good guidelineincgamers.com/ Diablo: IncGamers]}}</nowiki>|}

To insert an image, just add the following code, that you can see is very similar to other wiki links: <nowiki>[[File:filename.jpg]]</nowiki>. Make sure you don't forget to write have the correct file extension. The valid image files for {{WikiTitle}} are:

Images will are automatically be justificated justified to the left side on a page, but it's easy to change this with variables, to make boxes around images and to change their size. Read more about images on the '''[[Help:Image|Image Help page]]'''. 

Categories and subcategories are the backbone of a wiki's navigation. (Especially since the wiki search options aren't very intuitive.) Every page should be slotted into at least one category, to enable other users others to find it easily. If you are making new articles, it's very important to make sure they are put in the right correct category.

If you are familiar with html then wiki The syntax for creating table syntax will seem is fairly easy and very logical; however, if you are not familiar with html it is still relatively simple to follow. Here's an a basic example of one of the mediawiki table notations:

The tables are automatically formatted with the site style so you '''aren't required to add any style elements''' to the tables. The only time you would really need to add an element to the table is if you want to specify a width or want to make a table that is different than the standard {{WikiTitle}} style.