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Stampy uses
MediaWiki markup, which includes a
limited subset of HTML plus the following formatting options:
Items on lists start with *, numbered lists with #
- For external links use [ followed directly by the URL, a space, then display text and finally a ] symbol
- For internal links write the page title wrapped in [[]]s
- e.g. [[What is the Stampy project?]] gives What is the Stampy project?. Including a pipe symbol followed by display text e.g. [[What is the Stampy project?|Display Text]] allows you to show different Display Text.
- (ref)Reference notes go inside these tags(/ref)[1]
- If you post the raw URL of an image from imgur it will be displayed.[2] You can reduce file compression if you get an account. Note that you need the image itself, right click -> copy image address to get it
- To embed a YouTube video, use (youtube)APsK8NST4qE(/youtube) with the video ID of the target video.
- Start with ** or ## for double indentation
- Three 's around text - Bold
- Two 's around text Italic - Italic
Click show detailed for extra options and advanced usage.
- ↑ Note that we use ()s rather than the standard <>s for compatibility with Semantic MediaWiki. The references are automatically added to the bottom of the answer!
- ↑ If images seem popular we'll set up local uploads.
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Stampy uses
MediaWiki markup, which includes a
limited subset of HTML plus the following formatting options:
Items on lists start with *, numbered lists with #
- For external links use [ followed directly by the URL, a space, then display text and finally a ] symbol
- For internal links write the page title wrapped in [[]]s
- e.g. [[What is the Stampy project?]] gives What is the Stampy project?. Including a pipe symbol followed by display text e.g. [[What is the Stampy project?|Display Text]] allows you to show different Display Text.
- (ref)Reference notes go inside these tags(/ref)[1]
- If you post the raw URL of an image from imgur it will be displayed.[2] You can reduce file compression if you get an account. Note that you need the image itself, right click -> copy image address to get it
- To embed a YouTube video, use (youtube)APsK8NST4qE(/youtube) with the video ID of the target video.
- Start with ** or ## for double indentation
- Three 's around text - Bold
- Two 's around text Italic - Italic
Headings
have ==heading here== around them, more =s for smaller headings.
Wrap quotes in < blockquote>< /blockquote> tags (without the spaces)
There are also (poem) (/poem) to suppress linebreak removal, (pre) (/pre) for preformatted text, and (nowiki) (/nowiki) to not have that content parsed.[3]
We can pull live descriptions from the LessWrong/Alignment Forum using their identifier fro the URL, for example including the formatting on Template:TagDesc with orthogonality-thesis as a parameter will render as the full tag description from the LessWrong tag wiki entry on Orthogonality Thesis. Template:TagDescBrief is similar but will pull only the first paragraph without formatting.
For tables please use HTML tables rather than wikicode tables.
Edit this page to see examples.
- ↑ Note that we use ()s rather than the standard <>s for compatibility with Semantic MediaWiki. The references are automatically added to the bottom of the answer!
- ↑ If images seem popular we'll set up local uploads.
- ↑ () can also be used in place of allowed HTML tags. You can escape a () tag by placing a ! inside the start of the first entry. Be aware that () tags only nest up to two layers deep!
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