Help:Editing

Brief overview
The software YPPedia is run on utilizes a large range of specialized text editing tools for fast and easy editing within YPPedia, this guide will give a brief example of some of these, and how to use them.

Bolding
To bold a word or phrase, place three single quotation marks ( ''' ) at the beginning and end of the text you want to bold.
 * Example: Bold

Will become: Bold

Italicizing
To italicize your text, place two single quotation marks ( '' ) on each end of the text you want to italicize.
 * Example: Italics

Will become: Italics

Bolding and italicizing
To bold and italicize, place five single quotation marks ( ' ) around the text to be modified.
 * Example: Bold and italics

Will become: Bold and italics

No wiki formatting
To remove any specialized formatting, use the and < /nowiki> tags.
 * Example:   Bold font     Will become:  Bold font

Name only
To sign your name, place three tildes where you want your name signed. (NOTE: Clicking on your name will link to your user page.)
 * Example:

Will become: YourNameHere

Name and Timestamp
To sign your name with the current time, sign with four tildes ( ~ ) where you want your name signed. (NOTE: Clicking on your name will link to your user page.)
 * Example: ~

Will Become: YourNameHere, 27 August 2024 (PDT)

Timestamp only
To sign with only a timestamp, use five tildes where you want the timestamp to be placed.
 * Example:

Will become:, 27 August 2024 (PDT)

Indents
To indent your text place a colon on the beginning of the line. Adding two colons would double the indent, three would triple it, and so forth.


 * Example:

No indent :Indent ::Indent
 * Will Become:

No indent
 * Indent
 * Indent

Bullets
To create a bulleted list, place an asterisk (*) at the beginning of each line you want bulleted. Similarly to indents, adding a second asterisk will indent the bullets.


 * Example:

No bullet *Bullet **Bullet
 * Will Become:

No bullet
 * Bullet
 * Bullet

Numeric listing
To create a numbered list, place a number sign (also known as the hash mark) (#) at the beginning of the lines you want numbered, as with indents and bullets, multiple number signs will increase the indent.


 * Example:

No numbers
 * 1) Numbers
 * 2) Numbers
 * Will Become:

No numbers
 * 1) Numbers
 * 2) Numbers

Headings
To add headings which will, in turn, add entries to the Table of Contents at the top of the page, create a new line with your heading surrounded by a number of equal signs (=). Sub-headings are created by adding another equal sign to each side.


 * Example:

===Example heading=== ====Example subheading====
 * Will Become:

Example Subheading
Note how the table of contents at the top of the page responds to sub-headings. Most wiki pages use two equal signs ( ==heading== ) for their main headings.

Other Links

 * Help on linking
 * Wikipedia's guide to editing