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** they organize material
** they look clean
** Note that the symbol must be the first character on a new line.
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<td><pre><nowiki>* Lists are good:
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== Links, URLs, Images ==
 
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<tr valign="top"><td>Link to the [[Wikipedia FAQ]].<br>
(*First letter of target is automatically capitalized.<br>
*Spaces are converted into underscores.<br>
*To create a new page: start with a link to it, then click on ?.<br>
*#Create a link to it using this method.
Check out the [[naming conventions]].)
*#Save your page.
*#Click on the ? that has appeared after the link you just made. The new page will open for editing.
Check*Have outa look at the [[naming conventions]].)
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<td><pre><nowiki>Link to the [[Wikipedia FAQ]].</nowiki></pre>
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<tr valign="top"><td>[[The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't
exist yet.<br>
*You can start it by clicking on the question mark.<br>
*After creating a page, search for its title and make<br> sure that everyone correctly links to it.
sure that everyone correctly links to it.
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<td><pre><nowiki>[[The weather in London]] is a page
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<tr valign="top"><td>Redirect one article title to another<br>
*Redirect one article title to another by putting text like this in its first line.
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<td><pre><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[United States]]</nowiki></pre>
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<tr valign="top"><td>Or just give the URL: http://www.nupedia.com.<br>
(*Good idea since it makes a printout more useful.)
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<td><pre><nowiki>Or just give the URL:
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<tr valign="top"><td>A picture: [[Image:Flagusa.png]] <br>
<br>
*To upload images, use the [[Special:Uploads|upload page]]. You can find the uploaded image on the [[Special:Imagelist|image list]].
*'''Do not link to external files on other servers unless you control that server space!'''<br>
You can find uploaded image on the [[Special:Imagelist|image list]].
Do not link to external files on other servers unless you
control that server space!<br>
 
External image: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.png
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External image:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.png
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<tr><td>To include links to non-image uploads such as sounds,
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a "media" link.
*To include links to non-image uploads such as sounds, or to images shown as links instead of drawn on the page, use a "media" link.
 
<br>[[media:Sg_mrob.ogg|Sound]]
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<br>[[media:Tornado.jpg|Link to image]]
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<tr valign="top"><td>''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''.<br>
Use also in formulas: '''F''' = ''m'' '''a'''.<br>
 
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<td><pre><nowiki>''Emphasize'', '''strongly''',
'''''very strongly'''''.
'''F''' = ''m'' '''a'''.
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These are double and triple
*These are double and triple apostrophes, not double quotes.</nowiki></pre>
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<td>A typewriter font for <tt>technical terms</tt>.
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<td><pre><nowiki>A typewriter font for <tt>technical terms</tt>.</nowiki></pre>
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'''Umlauts and accents:''' (See [[wikipedia:Special characters]])<br>
&Agrave; &Aacute; &Acirc; &Atilde; &Auml; &Aring; <br>
&AElig; &Ccedil; &Egrave; &Eacute; &Ecirc; &Euml; <br>
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&uuml; &yuml;</td>
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'''Punctuation: '''<br>
&iquest; &iexcl; &laquo; &raquo; &sect; &para;<br>
&dagger; &Dagger; &bull; &mdash;
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&iquest; &iexcl; &laquo; &raquo; &sect; &para;
&dagger; &Dagger; &bull; &mdash;
 
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'''Commercial symbols: '''<br>
&trade; &copy; &reg; &cent; &euro; &yen; <br>
&pound; &curren;</td>
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&trade; &copy; &reg; &cent; &euro; &yen;
&pound; &curren;
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<td><pre>Subscript: x&#60;sub>2</sub> Superscript: x&#60;sup>2</sup></pre></td>
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<tr valign="top"><td>'''Greek characters:''' <br>
&alpha; &beta; &gamma; &delta; &epsilon; &zeta; <br>
&eta; &theta; &iota; &kappa; &lambda; &mu; &nu; <br>
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&alpha; &beta; &gamma; &delta; &epsilon; &zeta;
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'''Math characters:''' (See [[wikipedia:Special characters]]) <br>
&int; &sum; &prod; &radic; &ndash; &plusmn; &infin;<br>
&asymp; &prop; &equiv; &ne; &le; &ge; &rarr;<br>
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&int; &sum; &prod; &radic; &ndash; &plusmn; &infin;
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<tr valign="top"><td>More space than usual, no line break: x<sup>2</sup>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&ge;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;0 true.<br>
*To space things out, use non-breaking spaces - <tt>&amp;nbsp;</tt>.
This is useful in formulas.
*<tt>&amp;nbsp;</tt> also prevents line breaks in the middle of text, this is useful in formulas.
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<td>'''Ascii art integrals (start every line with a blank):'''
<pre><nowiki> &infin; -x<sup>2</sup>
&int; e dx = &radic;&pi;
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<th style="background:#efefef;">First header</th>
<th colspan="2" style="background:#aaaaaaffdead;">Second header</th>
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<td>upper left</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;">right side</td>
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