User blog:Shining-Armor/Shining's Wikitext Hoedown

In place of the Dik-dik of the day I have decided to create an introductory crash course on the wonderful world of wiki-text (wikitext?). Below are several of the most common things you will encounter while editing as well as sample code to show they are used.

"Hi folks, Dr. Loop Zoop M.D. Here, just came in from dropping some funky fresh rhymes on my radio show, DJ Zoop's wakeup call. You can wake yourself up by looking at these TOP TIPS for wikitext"

- Intro a-la RansomTime

Add category
→ (category added)

Link category
→ Category:Blog posts

Without mask
→

With mask
→ Wikia, inc.

Without mask
→ Special:Contact

With mask
→ Staff contact

Pipe trick
→ Contact

Bold
→ Bold text

Italics
→ Italics

Code
→

Nowiki
→ Hello

Pre-formatted
→ Hello, World!

Redirects
→ Redirects the page to the target page

Signature only
→ ᐃᓐᓂᕈᖅᑐᖅ

Timestamp only
→ 20:02, January 20, 2016 (UTC)

Signature and timestamp
→ ᐃᓐᓂᕈᖅᑐᖅ 20:02, January 20, 2016 (UTC)

No parameters
→ |

With parameters
→