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A typewriter font for monospace text or for computer code: int main()

• For semantic reasons, using <code> where applicable is preferable to using <tt>.

A typewriter font for <tt>monospace text</tt>
or for computer code: <code>int main()</code>

Ando 22:02, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

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• Three tildes to add user name alone:

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• Five tildes gives the date/time alone:

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When adding a comment to a Talk page, you should sign it by adding four tildes to add your user name plus date/time:
: ~~~~
Other, less recommended alternatives are:
*Three tildes to add user name alone:
: ~~~
*Five tildes gives the date/time alone:
: ~~~~~

Any type of link can be a piped link.

[[Link]] is the main character of [[The Legend of Zelda (Series)|''The Legend of Zelda'' series]].

[[This is a link to a page that doesn't exist]].
If you want to create that page, you could do so by clicking the link.

[[Talk:Main Page]]

[[:Category:Zelda]]

[[Talk:Main Page/Archive07]]

• [1] (very bad)
• http://www.zeldawiki.org (bad)
• Zelda Wiki.org (good)

*[http://www.zeldawiki.org] (very bad)
*http://www.zeldawiki.org (bad)
*[http://www.zeldawiki.org Zelda Wiki.org] (good)

Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
OR See also: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on

[[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]<br>
'''OR'''
{{Wikipedia|The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time}}

#REDIRECT [[page name]]

Link#Phantom_Hourglass is a link to a section within another page.

#Links and URLs is a link to a section on the current page.

#example is a link to an anchor that was created using

• The part after the number sign (#) must match a section heading on the page. Matches must be exact in terms of spelling, case and punctuation. Links to non-existent sections aren't broken; they are treated as links to the top of the page.
• Identifiers may be created by attaching an id="..."> attribute to almost any HTML element.

[[Link#Phantom_Hourglass]] is a link
to a section within another page.

[[#Links and URLs]] is a link
to a section on the current page.

[[#example]] is a link to an
anchor that was created using
<div id="example">an id attribute</div>

Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: The Legend of Zelda.

Automatically hide namespace: Zelda.

• The server fills in the part after the pipe character (|) when you save the page. The next time you open the edit box you will see the expanded piped link. When previewing your edits, you will not see the expanded form until you press Save and Edit again. The same applies to links to sections within the same page (see previous entry).

Automatically hide stuff in parentheses:
[[The Legend of Zelda (Game)|]].

Automatically hide namespace: 
[[:Category:Zelda|]].

• To put an article in a Category, place a link like the one to the right anywhere in the article. As with interlanguage links, it does not matter where you put these links while editing as they will always show up in the same place when you save the page, but placement at the end of the edit box is recommended.

[[Category:Character sets]]

Linking to other wikis:

1. Interwiki link: Wiktionary:Hello
2. Named interwiki link: Hello
3. Interwiki link without prefix: Hello

• All of these forms lead to the URL http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hello
• Note that interwiki links use the internal link style.
• See MetaWikiPedia:Interwiki_map for the list of shortcuts; if the site you want to link to isn't on the list, use an external link (see above).
• See also Wikipedia:How to link to Wikimedia projects.

Linking to another language's wiktionary:

1. Wiktionary:fr:bonjour
2. bonjour
3. fr:bonjour

• All of these forms lead to the URL http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/bonjour

Linking to other wikis:
# [[Interwiki]] link: [[Wiktionary:Hello]]
# Named interwiki link: [[Wiktionary:Hello|Hello]]
# Interwiki link without prefix: [[Wiktionary:Hello|]]

Linking to another language's wiktionary:
# [[Wiktionary:fr:bonjour]]
# [[Wiktionary:fr:bonjour|bonjour]]
# [[Wiktionary:fr:bonjour|]]

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::Further indented text.

• A list
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• Then start a new list with an empty line

*A list
*You can go in the same level
**Or create a sub-level
***As many as needed

*Then start a new list with an empty line

1. You can also make numbered lists
2. The numbers are automatically added
   1. It's easy to create them

#You can also make numbered lists
#The numbers are automatically added
##It's easy to create them

: A colon indents a line or paragraph.

<center>Centered text.</center>

A horizontal dividing line: this is above it

and this is below it.

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and this is below it.