Help:Wiki markup

Bold and italics
Use the apostrophe character in groups of two or three to create bold and italics text.

Links to Autism Wiki articles
In a wiki, it's important to help build the web by creating links to other articles.

Put two brackets around text to create a link to another article. If that article doesn't exist yet, then the link you create will show up as red.

You can change the text of the link by using the | character to separate the name of the article from the words that will appear in the article.

Headings
You can divide a page into different sections. The wiki will automatically generate a table of contents for all articles with more than three sections.

You can also create a horizontal divider by using four dashes in a row.

Indented text
Use the colon at the start of a line to indent a block of text. Use two colons to indent further.

Bullets and Lists
Use an asterisk at the start of a line to create a bullet.

Use the # sign at the start of each line to create a numbered list.

You can also mix and match the characters to make a nested list.

Links to other websites
You can also make external links to other websites. Type a bracket, the site address (URL), a space, the title of the page that you're linking to, and another bracket to close it in.

Images and other media
To add image files to the Wiki from your computer, follow these steps:


 * Give the file an appropriate and suitable name. Make sure you don't use a name that's already taken by another file -- you can check the image list to be sure.
 * Click on the Upload file link in the sidebar.
 * Click on the Browse button and locate the image on your computer.
 * Click on the Upload file button to add the file.

To include the image in a particular article, use the following Image markup tag and substitute the name of your picture file:


 * [[Image:filename.jpg]]

Always be respectful of copyright -- don't just take files from other sites without permission.

Please only upload .jpg files, not .gif or .bmp files.

Uploading images to the wiki is easy and free. Please don't post images to the wiki that are loaded from another website, or a service like Photobucket. It's disrespectful to steal bandwidth from another site, and it's unnecessary.

Suppressing markup
It's also possible to tell MediaWiki to ignore any of the above rules using a simple tag:

Creating tables
A basic example, first row has all cells in same line, second row has it's cell's on each line. Each row is rendered with all cells on the same line. Here is what you type in editor: Here is what is rendered when the page is displayed:


 * Wikipedia table help page shows all formatting options