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There are many key tags that you will have to learn when formatting an article. Here is a breakdown on them. YTMND wiki is powered by MediaWiki, and therefore can be edited the same way as many other sites, like Wikipedia.

Text Formatting

• Two apostrophes makes text italicized.
• Three apostrophes makes text bolded.
• A colon (":") will make an indent in the text.
• To type text as it is without formatting, use the <nowiki> tag.

  For example; To make "[[You're]] ''the'' '''man''' {{now}} [dog !]", you'd first type <nowiki>, what you'll write, and end it with </nowiki>.

• To make comments only visible when editing, you'd type <!-- Comment -->. Press "edit" for a proof.

Link Formatting

• To make a link to a page on the wiki, surround the page's name with double square brackets.

  For example. to make a link to Fads, you'd write [[Fads]].

• If you want to link a page on the wiki using different text, separate the article name and the text by a pipe ("|").

  For example; To make a link to Fads, you'd write [[Fads|link to Fads]].

• To make a link to a site outside of the wiki, you can either type it's url and it will automatically make the link (remember to include the http:// part)

  For Example: http://www.ytmnd.com/

• To make a link to a site outside the wiki appear as a number in brackets, surround the URL in brackets. Note that links to some major wiki sites have special formatting to link to their articles, those can be found at Help:Interwiki links.

  [http://www.ytmnd.com] makes [1]

• To make a link to a site outside the wiki using different text, separate the URL and the text with a space.

  [http://www.ytmnd.com YTMND] makes YTMND

List Formatting

1. The number sign (shift + 3) will make a numbered list. Use the number sign (a.k.a. hash) each time you want a different number to come up.
2. When in a numbered list, a hash and a colon will make an indent.

   Such as this.

3. An asterik (shift + 8) will make a bullet.
   • Such as this.

Article Formatting

1. Two equals signs makes a main topic.

   See Formatting An Article.

2. Three equals signs makes a sub-topic.

   See Text Formatting.

3. Four equals signs makes a sub-sub-topic.

For more info, read Wikimedia's editing guide.