Talk:Help

Help with Wikisyntax
(Adapted from Meta Help:Editing)

{| border="1px solid gray" cellpadding="2" style="background:white; border:1px solid gray" !width="1000" style="background:#74D0F1"|What it looks like !width="500" style="background:#A9EAFE"|What you type You can italicize text by putting 2 apostrophes on each side.

3 apostrophes will embolden the text.

5 apostrophes will embolden and italicize the text.

(4 apostrophes doesn't do anything special -- there's just 'one left over'.) You can italicize text by putting 2 apostrophes on each side.

3 apostrophes will embolden the text.

5 apostrophes will embolden and italicize the text.

(4 apostrophes doesn't do anything special -- there's just 'one left over'.) You should "sign" your comments on talk pages:

- Three tildes give your user name: Karl Wick

- Four tildes give your user name plus date/time: Karl Wick 07:46, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

- Five tildes give the date/time alone: 07:46, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

You should "sign" your comments on talk pages:

- Three tildes give your user name:

- Four tildes give your user name plus date/time: ~

- Five tildes give the date/time alone:

Section headings

Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them.

Subsection Using more equals signs creates a subsection.

A smaller subsection

Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs.

Start with 2 equals signs not 1 because 1 creates H1 tags which should be reserved for page title.

Section headings
Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them.

Subsection
Using more equals signs creates a subsection.

A smaller subsection
Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs.

Start with 2 equals signs not 1 because 1 creates H1 tags which should be reserved for page title. marks the end of the list. marks the end of the list. A new line marks the end of the list.
 * - id="lists"
 * Unordered lists are easy to do:
 * Start every line with a star.
 * More stars indicate a deeper level.
 * Previous item continues.
 * A newline
 * in a list
 * in a list
 * Of course you can start again.
 * Unordered lists are easy to do:
 * Start every line with a star.
 * More stars indicate a deeper level.
 * Previous item continues.
 * A new line
 * in a list
 * in a list
 * Of course you can start again.
 * 1) Numbered lists are:
 * 2) Very organized
 * 3) Easy to follow
 * 1) Very organized
 * 2) Easy to follow
 * 1) New numbering starts with 1.

A new line marks the end of the list. Links Here's a link to the Main Page. Of course, case matters (except for the first letter): Main page. Here's a link to the Main page. The weather in London is a page that doesn't exist yet. You could create it by clicking on the link. The weather in London is a page that doesn't exist yet. You could create it by clicking on the link. You can link to a page section by its title:
 * 1) Numbered lists are:
 * 2) Very organized
 * 3) Easy to follow
 * 1) Easy to follow
 * 1) New numbering starts with 1.


 * List of cities by country.

If multiple sections have the same title, add a number. goes to the third section named "Example section".

You can link to a page section by its title:


 * List of cities by country.

If multiple sections have the same title, add a number. goes to the third section named "Example section".
 * }

Categories
The categories are special wikilinks, starting with the word "Category", like this:. Everytime such link is made on a page, it appears at the bottom of the page, with all others categories. Click on the link to see that category pages are always up-to-date list of articles within this category. Very very useful. To make a link to a category page, without this category to be added in the article (that is not making the article part of the category), add a colon before the "Category" word, like this Category:F-type star.

Templates
The templates are special wiki pages, starting with the word: "Template", like this: http://vsop.sc.eso.org/wiki/Template:Welcome (See page). You can edit the page to see it contents, but be sure to know what you change, if you want to... To the contrary of other normal wiki links, Template pages define some formatted text. Then, they are called with the following code with curly braces:. See for instance, this example. Templates are usually managed by wiki sysops and ,.