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The single equal sign is ''not'' used in articles. It'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 one.
Avoid putting numbers into page headers, since numbers are automatically generated by the wiki table of contents, and will look redundant or even misleading.
====The Table of Contents Box====Wiki format is pretty clever and can automatically create TOC boxes like you see at the top of the page. A content box is automatically created when you use 4 or more headlines, which are formatted as explained above. All headlines will show up in the TOC, which is very handy. The level structure of the TOC works just as explained above with headlines. It's that simple! ===Lists====
Aside from links and tables, covered elsewhere on this page, the most common formatting tool is the list. There are two types: bulleted and numbered, and they are written in exactly the same manner. To create a bullet list, simply place asterisks (*) at the start of each line you want to bullet. If you want a numbered list, use the hash (#) sign. To add subheadings, simply use 2 or more such punctuation signs. The wiki script will automatically arrange them on the page.
The only difference from actually adding the category is the ":" before the "Category". An optional title is often good to use here, so people don't get confused by the "strange" name. Remember If that page is meant to be in that category, add a tag for it at the end of the page as well.
===External Links===External links can be are made with one bracket on either side of the link without space and a description, like similarly to internal links. The difference is that it uses single brackets (<nowiki>[http://yourlink.com]</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 link source with an alternative title, and will create it uses a simple space. This naturally means that it isn't possible to link to pages that uses spaces in brackets, like this: the URL. It's easy to distinguish external links in the wiki by the "external link icon" that appears on those links ([http://www.diabloiidiii.net/ example]).
==Table of Contents Boxes==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. 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>.
For more complex URLs, full html formatting is required. Just add <nowiki>"<span class="plainlinks">"</nowiki> directly in front of your link, and <nowiki>"</span>"</nowiki> directly after for the same effect as above.
==Creating Tables==
If you are familiar with html then wiki table syntax will seem logical; however, if you are not familiar with html it is still pretty relatively simple to follow.
Here's an example of one of the mediawiki table notations:
{|
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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 widthor want to make a table that is different than the standard {{WikiTitle}} style. As you can see the wiki code 'looks' like a table and you can expand on this and format more complex tables. It's easy enough to look at other tables as well, to get inspiration if you want to do more advanced things with it.
==Categories==
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 to find it easily.* Every page automatically displays the categories it is slotted into at the bottom of the page.* Category designations should be straight forward and self evident.* Category pages are generated automatically by the wiki script, with all pages in that category shown in alphabetical order. See the [[:Category:Monsters|Monsters Category]] for one example.* It's helpful to add some introductory text to a category page, but this text should be kept short and to the point.** If a fuller explanation is required, create a separate page for that purpose. See the [[:Category:Amazon|Amazon Category]] within which you can find an [[Amazon]] page, for instance. To add a page to a category, (and create the category itself, if it does not already exist), place the following tag somewhere on the page in question (for ease of editingare making new articles, it's recommended that categories very important to make sure they are added at put in the very bottom of a page): <pre>[[Category:xxxxx]]</pre> Where xxxxx is the name of the Categoryright category. ===Subcategories=== Subcategories are automatically created by the wiki script, just like * Read more about categories. They are displayed on categories pages, and are used to organize individual pages into smaller, more focused groups. These can overlap or intertwine to some degree. For instance, in the [[Help:Category:Monsters|Monsters Category]] has subcategories for [[:Category:Act Bosses|Act Bosses]] and [[:Category:Superuniques|SuperUniques]]. Furthermore, the five Act Boss pages are all found within the SuperUniques category. Moving up the hierarchical tree, the monsters category is found within the [[:Category:BasicsHelp page]].
===Linking to Categories===
In order to link directly to a category, add a ":" in front of "Category", like this: [[:Category:Help]], to make it a link instead of adding the article to the category. Optional title is useful. Read more about this in the links section on this page.
==Images==
To insert an image, just add the following code, that you can see is very similar to other wiki links: <nowiki>[[Image:filename.jpg]]</nowiki>. Make sure you don't forget to write the file extension. The valid image files for {{WikiTitle}} are:
* .gif
* .jpg
* .png
Images will automatically be justificated 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]].
==Further Reading==
