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The most common way to emphasize or set apart some text in a line is to use apostrophes to create italicized and bold text:<br>

<code><nowiki>''Using two''</nowiki></code> will give you ''italics''.<br>

Underlining text is not as convenient; it requires you to fall back to raw HTML markup:<br>

  This line actually starts with a " " character. This places it inside a box with a fixed-size font. Keep doing this for consecutive lines to set apart a whole block of text (e.g. programming code).

  The previous line is only empty in the rendered box; if you edit this page, you'll see the " " character in the wiki markup. This prevents the box from ending whenever there is an empty line in your block of text. The next line is empty; notice how the box ends and a new one starts with the next space-prefixed line.

  You can still put code block text in ''italics'', '''bold''', or '''''bold italics'''''.

There are several other formatting options – the <nowiki><pre></nowiki>, <nowiki><tt></nowiki>, <nowiki><code></nowiki>, and <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki> tags – which will not be discussed in-depth here, but play around with them to see how they behave slightly differently from each other.

'''Normal newlines'''<br>

A quirk of wiki markup is that two consecutive lines will be displayed as one line. In other words, a single newline is ignored. This actually goes back to the fact that wiki markup is based on HTML which behaves the same way. Instead of hitting Return once to start a new line, you need to hit it twice. Alternately, you can force a linebreak at any time with the <nowiki><br></nowiki> tag.

'''Numbered lists'''<br>

#This line's markup begins with a "#" character.

##This line begins with two "#" characters.

'''Bulleted lists'''<br>

*This line's markup begins with a "*" character.

**This line begins with two "*"s.

'''Indented paragraphs'''<br>

:This line begins with a ":" character. The whole paragraph will use this indentation.

'''Titled paragraphs'''<br>

:Starting the next line after a ";" line with a ":" creates the impression of a paragraph under a title, useful for typesetting word definitions, dialogue lines, etc.

Basically, there are thee types of links: (1) links to external pages and files, (2) intrawiki links to other pages on the wiki, and (3) interwiki links to other wiki projects.

Write the following to get some text acting as an ''outgoing'' hyperlink.

If you omit the label text, the result will be different:

The result is: here [https://discord.com/invite/eqDMnkD] is our Discord server.

 

However, this is not our usual style on this wiki; you should always label your links.

 

The result is: here is our Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/eqDMnkD

 

This is generally considered ugly in comparison to a labeled link. However you can embed external images inline if you use their bare URL like this.

"Intrawiki" refers to links to other pages on the same wiki. Simply write the following to get an intrawiki link:

Write the following to get an intrawiki link which is labeled with some text:

You should never place full URLs to pages on this wiki, e.g. <nowiki>http://wiki.oni2.net/</nowiki>OniSplit#Download_links, because intrawiki links allow various features of the wiki to work properly such as "What links here" and the [[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned pages]] list.

You can link to pages on wikis in the Wikimedia family, e.g. [[wikt:Wiktionary:Main_Page|Wiktionary]], [[wp:Main_Page|Wikipedia]] and [[metawikimedia:Main_Page|Meta-Wiki]], as if they were pages of our own wiki by adding the shortcuts '''<nowiki>wiktionary:</nowiki>''', '''<nowiki>wikipedia:</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>metawikimedia:</nowiki>''' within double brackets. When you make an interwiki link, the outbound link icon changes from a blue arrow to a green arrow to show that you are linking to a fellow wiki, not some random web site.

An example of using an interwiki prefix would be <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:Test]]</nowiki></code>, which produces [[wikipedia:Test]]. You can supply label text using the syntax <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:Test|Test]]</nowiki></code> to get rid of that pesky prefix in the final markup: [[wikipedia:Test|Test]]. These prefixes accept language codes, so you could use the markup <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:de:Test|Test]]</nowiki></code> to link to the German article [[wikipedia:de:Test|Test]].

Looking at the list, you'll see that some prefixes are not actually for other wikis but general web shortcuts; '''google:''' produces a Google search query for the provided search term, and '''cache:''' produces a Google page cache query for the provided URL.

To place an image which has been uploaded to the wiki, you type its name inside of double brackets preceded by "Image:", e.g. <code><nowiki>[[Image:TXMPPOSTER3.png]]</nowiki></code>. This markup will be replaced by the named image. If you only want to link to an image, not display it, you type <code><nowiki>[[:Image:TXMPPOSTER3.png]]</nowiki></code> to get [[:Image:TXMPPOSTER3.png]].

Text can be "transcluded" from one place on the wiki to another using this markup: <code><nowiki>{{:Quotes/Consoles/level_1h}}</nowiki></code>. Transclusion means that whenever the original text is updated, so is the text wherever the transclusion is performed. Transclusion is most commonly used in order to invoke templates, which can perform various handy functions. However when you transclude a template you can leave off the leading colon and the namespace; that is, instead of <code><nowiki>{{:Template:SomeTemplate|some parameter}}</nowiki></code> you only need to write <code><nowiki>{{SomeTemplate:some parameter}}</nowiki></code>. [[:Category:Templates|Here's a list]] of our wiki's templates. Click on one and then click on "What links here": you should see a list of pages, each one probably followed by "{{nbwj}}(transclusion)". Look at the wiki markup for those pages to see how the template was utilized on the page.

Templates are not a special kind of wiki page; they're simply a term that we use to refer to pages that are meant to be transcluded, and which often use magic words (terms with special meaning to the MediaWiki parser) to provide logic (but again, this logic can be used on any page). Templates usually provide a standardized format for something like a table, header or footer, e.g. [[:Template:OBD File Footer]]. You should familiarize yourself with our templates if you plan to do a decent amount of editing; they are not only time-savers but they also help editors make their edits fit in with OniGalore standards and can make it easier to update large amounts of wiki text at once.

To make the table a fixed width, add this CSS styling to the first line: <code>{| style="width:500px;"</code>. You can also use a percentage such as <code>width:50%;</code>. To center the table on the page, use <code><nowiki>{| style="{{center}}"</nowiki></code>. To right-align it, use <code>"float:right;"</code> instead.

*Indenting wrapped lines: [[Walkthrough]]