PBwiki uses standard, simple wiki formatting. You can click the "view wiki source" link in the footer to see how this page is formatted.*

See also: Advanced Formatting

Text formatting

Lists

• One * (asterisk) + a space at the beginning of a line makes a bullet point, like this.

1. Use # + a space at the beginning of a line to make a numbered list, like this.
1. Nested lists like this one are made by doubling the * or # for subpoints

Character Formatting

Character formatting is quite easy:

• To make something bold, put 2 * (asterisk) before and after it: **word**
• To make something italicized, put 2 ' (apostrophe) before and after it: ''word''
• By using 2 _ (underscore) before and after, text can be __underlined__: __word__
• Strikethrough is done with (space +) 1 - (dash) before and 1 - (dash) (+ space) after: -word-

Here it is at a glance:

Sections

• One ! at the beginning of a line makes a huge headline (like "Text formatting" above)
• Two !! make a big headline (like "Sections" over the Sections section right here)
• Three !!! and more--up to 6--make successively smaller headlines

Other

• 1 | (vertical bar) before and after something puts a box around it
• 3 - (hypen) on a line by themselves make a dividing line (horizontal rule) like the one below the boxed text below this

Links

• If you use two capital letters in a word with lowercase letters in between, PBwiki will automatically recognize the word as a link to a page. For example, LookFunny and SandBox link to pages, but sandbox and Sandbox don't. If you use a word like FunnyWord but don't yet have a page called FunnyWord, you can create that page just by clicking on the word. (Until the page is created, the link will have a dashed underline decoration. This way you can tell at a glance which pages have been created and which haven't.) On the other hand, to prevent the word from becoming a link, add ~ in front of it.
• You can also just type or paste in URLs like http://pbwiki.com/ or put [ ] brackets around a word. Brackets will force the word to become a link even if it isn't in the FunnyWord style.
• You can beautify links by using [ ] brackets and |, like [http://pbwiki.com/|PBwiki] to get PBwiki.
• Just type in email addresses like support@pbwiki.com.
• Or type them in and beautify them by adding brackets: [support@pbwiki.com|help!!] gives help!!.
• A special "top" link (to return a user to the top of the page) can be made with Top. The top link can be customized by inserting your own link description inside the angle brackets: link description.

Pictures

• You can also show pictures in your wiki. Just add the link to the picture in [ ] brackets! For example, [http://pbwiki.com/sandwch2.jpg] gives:

Uploaded Files

• Uploaded files can be linked to in the same way as everything else--you'll just need the file's location (URL). You can find a list of all the files you have uploaded to your wiki by selecting the 'Files' link at the top or bottom of the page. While there, right-click on a file link to copy its URL.

Tables

• Table rows can be made by beginning and ending a line with | (vertical bar). The content of the row is placed between the bars. If more than one cell is desired for any particular row, an additional | is used as the separator.

• Adjacent table rows will be automagically combined into a single table.

Table of Contents

• A table with links to all the (!, !!, and !!!) sections on that page can be made by inserting

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  wherever you'd like the table. See the top of this page for an example.
• To make the table only link to the largest (!) headlines, use

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  .
• To make the table only link to the largest and second-largest headlines (! and !!), use

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  .

Use WikiStyle Characters Normally

• The tags and <verbatim> can be used to prevent PBwiki from interpreting special characters like <raw>** before and after a word, which normally would make the word bold. For shorter sections of text (a few words), use ; for longer sections, use <verbatim>. * These tags act like HTML tags in that there is both an opening tag and a closing tag, the opening before the text and the closing after the text: <raw><raw>**words that aren't bolded**.

More

• To display the view count for a page, insert where you'd like to see it.
• To link to a random page, insert Random Page
• PBwiki accepts HTML, so if there's something that you'd like to do that can't be done with WikiStyle--and you know HTML--go for it!

Special Pages

• RecentChanges (the 'Changes' link at the top and bottom) shows you all of the changes made to the wiki.
• AllPages lists all of the pages in the wiki. Choosing "except revisions" at the top of AllPages reveals the earlier versions of the pages as well. AllPages is also the place to go if you would like to delete pages or revisions.
• The SideBar that appears in the upper right may be edited like any other page in the wiki. If you don't have a SideBar, simply create a page with this name and add something to it.

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