Help:Cheatsheet

Mostly stolen from the Fanlore cheatsheet. If you have a page that needs editing help from other wiki'ers, use these codes.

Glitchen Cheatsheet For more information on formatting, see Help:Formatting. (Note: this doesn't exist yet.)
Description	You type	You get
Italicise text	''italic''	italic
Bold text	'''bold'''	bold
Bold and italic	'''''bold & italic'''''	bold & italic
Escape wiki markup	<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>	no ''markup''
Indent text	:Indent text	Indent text
Horizontal rule	----
Internal link (within Glitchen wiki)	[[Name of page]] [[Name of page|Text to display]]	Name of page Text to display
External link (to other websites)	[http://www.example.org Text to display] [http://www.example.org] http://www.example.org	Text to display [1] http://www.example.org
Redirect to another page	#REDIRECT [[Target page]]
Footnotes/References (Note: this doesn't work yet.) Numbering is generated automatically.	To create a footnote or reference, use this format: Article text.<ref name=test>[http://www.example.org Link text], additional text.</ref>	Article text.<ref name=test>Link text, additional text.</ref>
	To reuse the same note, reuse the name with a trailing slash: Article text.<ref name=test/>
	To display notes, add these lines to the References section <references/>	<references />
Headings A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.	== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ======	Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
Bulleted Lists Empty lines between list items discouraged (see numbered lists).	* One * Two ** Two point one * Three	One Two Two point one Three
Numbered Lists Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.	# One # Two ## Two point one # Three	One Two Two point one Three
Mixture of bulleted and numbered lists	# one # two #* two point one #* two point two	one two two point one two point two
Definition list	;Definition :item 1 :item 2	Definition item 1 item 2
Preformatted text	preformatted text is done with   a space at the   beginning of the line	preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line
Thumbnail image	[[Image:Example.jpg|thumb|Caption text]]	File:Example.jpg Caption text
Categorizing a page	[[Category:Help]]	See bottom of page.
For Talk Pages
Signature	~~~~	Your username 11:57, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
Indenting Text	no indent (normal) :first indent ::second indent :::third indent	no indent (normal) first indent second indent third indent
Tables	Use this link: MediaWiki Table Generator	See: Enchanted Forest for example

Pages with problems

Use these codes if you find a page that's incomplete or incorrect and you can't fix it yourself. (Or if you're creating a new page and need help filling in some of the info.)

{{Stub}}

• For pages that have very little information and almost no links. (List of all stubs.)

{{Incomplete}} or {{Incomplete|<add the reason>}}

• For pages that are fairly complete but are missing a few things, usually numbers. (List of all incomplete articles.)

{{Outdated}}

• For pages that refer to an earlier version of Glitch or have information that's not correct anymore. (List of all outdated articles.)