Wiki Writing Reference

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A Quick Guide to Wiki Writing

Introduction:

This guide is a quick reference for all of your wiki formatting needs. The goal is to help give you the tools to quickly and confidently organize and prese

Headings:

Headings are an important tool for your wiki. They are a quick and easy way to make the various sections stand apart, while also helping you to organize your wiki into subcategories or themes. An example of a good place to use headings is in your weekly log, use it to separate each log entry or use it in your project wiki page to differentiate between Obstacles, Challenges, and Project Overview.

You can insert a heading with the format below:
== TEXT FOR HEADING HERE==

Additionally you can get different types of headings with various amounts of addition equal signs (=) on either side. The maximum is 5 on either size, and as the number of equal signs increase, the size of the heading decreases. For example:

===TEXT FOR HEADING 2 ===

Becomes:

TEXT FOR HEADING 2

=====TEXT FOR HEADING 3=====

Becomes:

TEXT FOR HEADING 3

Text Manipulation:

Text manipulation such as bold and italics can help to draw emphasis to a specific word or phrase in your wiki.

You can bold words with the format below:
'''BOLDED TEXT'''
BOLDED TEXT
You can italicize words with the format below:
''ITALICIZIED TEXT''
ITALICIZIED TEXT