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You can do most formatting just using the buttons at the top of the editor (B, I, U, etc.), but there are a few things you may want to do where you'll need to use wiki markup. That just means you type in certain special characters which tell the system what you want. For example, that's how you create links (to other web pages), and also how you create section headers within a page.

Any web link:

{{ LINK TEXT | LINK URL }} eg. {{Google search|http://www.google.com}}

Link on this site:

[[ PAGE NUMBER ]] eg. [[10266]]

[[ LINK TEXT | PAGE NUMBER ]] eg., [[ this wiki markup page | 10266 ]]

[[ PAGE TITLE ]] eg., [[Wiki markup]]

Section header:

==Section title== eg., ==How to create a link==

Special:

[[=image FILENAME | CAPTION | LOCATION]] eg., [[=image 10609|Neighborhood map|left]]

[[=quote TEXT | ATTRIBUTION ]] eg., [[=image Be the change | Gandhi ]]

To create a link to any web page, use curly brackets like this:

{{ LINK TEXT | LINK URL }}

That's a pipe character separating the link text from the url. It's usually found on the backslash key of your keyboard. You don't need spaces, that's just to make the example easier to read. Here's a real example:

{{Google search|http://www.google.com}}

which would display like this:

Google search

If you want to link to a page on this site itself, it's even easier. Do it like this:

[[ PAGE NUMBER ]]

(Of course, that only works for pages that have a number—but most do. You can find it looking at the url of the page. For example, to link to the page you're reading right now, you'd do this:

[[ 10266 ]]

which would display like this:

Wiki markup

You can also do it like this:

[[ LINK TEXT | PAGE NUMBER ]] or [[ PAGE TITLE ]]

To create a section header within a page (like the one that says "Section headers", above), simply surround it with a pair of equal signs:

==Section headers==

To include an image, you have to first upload it. You can do that here

To include the image in a wiki page, use this text:

[[=image FILENAME | CAPTION | LOCATION ]], where

• FILENAME: the filename of the uploaded image, which is a number, possibly with 'M' or 'T' at the end, if you want to the middle or thumbnail size
  
• CAPTION: caption you want for the image
• LOCATION: how the image should be aligned on the page (left, right, or center)

For example, [[=image 10629T|Neighborhoods map| center ]] which displays like this:

You can quote text like this:

[[=quote You must be the change you want to see in the world|Mohandas Gandhi]] which displays like: