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Linking

Use square brackets to create links.
For a link to an external site, the syntax is '[URL Description]'.
- To create the link 'Code Valley', enter the string '[http://www.codevalley.com Code Valley]' (without the quotes).
- If your link doesn't need a description, you can just enter its URL. Anything beginning with http:// or ftp:// is automatically converted to a link (as you can probably tell). For example, the strings http://www.google.com and ftp://ftp.jcu.edu.au/pub/.
For an internal link to an article within the wiki, use double square brackets - '[[' and ']]'. The syntax is '[[Article name]]'.
- To create the link 'Eric's Mod', you would enter the string '[[Eric's Mod]]'.
- To give the link a different title from the article you are linking to, the syntax is '[[Article|Title]]'. To create a link to Eric's Mod that looks like 'an Austar dipole modification', you would enter the string '[[Eric's Mod|an Austar dipole modification]]'.
Link often. The more informative, cross-referencing links a wiki has, the more useful it becomes.

For italic text, surround your string with two sets of single quotes - to make 'Italy' italic, write it as ''Italy''.
For bold text, surround your string with three sets of single quotes - to make 'triplicate' bold, write it as '''triplicate'''.
To create bullet points, start new lines with the asterisk character - '*'.
- For a heirarchy of bullet points, start new lines with the number of levels deep that the line should be - this one starts '**'.
  - This line starts '***'.
To create a numbered list, start new lines with the '#' character.

To create headings, enclose your string in '=' characters. The string =Heading= will produce a <h1> (largest heading), whilst ==Heading== will produce a <h2>. If your article has an automatically generated table of contents, it will use headings to determine sections.
Having at least four headings in your article causes a table of contents to be generated at the very top of the article. If you wish the table of contents to appear elsewhere, or your article has less than four headings, insert the string __TOC__ (with two underscores) at the point you want the table to appear:

To insert an image, the syntax is '[[Image:filename]]'
For an excellent summary of the options available when referencing images and other media, have a look at Wikipedia's FAQ answer.