MediaWiki:Edittools

📘 Wikitext Toolbox – Click to expand
This toolbox provides quick access to the most common and advanced MediaWiki formatting commands used on Wikipedia.

Basic Formatting
• ''italic'' – italic text
• '''bold''' – bold text
• '''''bold italic''''' – bold + italic
• == Heading == – section heading
• === Subheading === – smaller heading
• * – bullet list
• # – numbered list
• ; – definition term
• : – indent text

Links
• [[Page name]] – internal link
• [[Page name|Label]] – custom label
• [https://example.com Label] – external link
• [[Category:Name]] – add to category
• [[File:Example.png]] – embed file
• [[Media:File.ext]] – link to file download

Templates
• {{Template}} – insert template
• {{Template|param=value}} – with parameter
• {{Infobox}} – infobox
• {{Quote|text=}} – quote box
• {{Navbox}} – navigation box
• {{Citation needed}} – citation tag

Tables
{| class="wikitable" – start table
|- – new row
! Header – header cell
| Cell – normal cell
|} – end table
style="width:100%;" – table styling

Special Syntax
• {{ }} – template braces
• <noinclude></noinclude> – exclude from transclusion
• <includeonly></includeonly> – include only when transcluded
• #REDIRECT [[Target]] – redirect page
• {{DEFAULTSORT:Name}} – category sorting key
• __NOTOC__ – hide table of contents
• __NOINDEX__ – prevent indexing
• __HIDDENCAT__ – hide category
• <nowiki></nowiki> – show raw code

Code & Preformatted
• <code>inline code</code> – inline code
• <pre>preformatted text</pre> – block code
• <syntaxhighlight lang="php"></syntaxhighlight> – syntax highlighting

Math (LaTeX)
• <math>x^2 + y^2 = z^2</math>
• <math>\frac{a}{b}</math>
• <math>\sqrt{x}</math>
• <math>\sum_{i=1}^n i</math>

Block Elements
• <blockquote>Quote</blockquote> – block quote
• <gallery></gallery> – image gallery
• <ref></ref> – reference
• <references/> – reference list

Useful Symbols
– — · “” ‘’ «» ‹› … ~ | ° ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ± − × ÷ ← → ² ³ ½ §