Editing Edit Guide (section)

==Formatting==

===Disable markup===

Mediawiki uses a custom markup language known as Wikitext which is similar to Markdown. It allows users to format text, create links, build tables and structure content using plain text syntax.

If you want your text to not get formatted by Wikitext, you can write it between two nowiki tags. For example<br>

 <nowiki><nowiki>https://www.google.com/</nowiki></nowiki>

will look like this:<br>

 <nowiki>https://www.google.com/</nowiki>

instead of being a clickable link to Google like this:<br>

[https://www.google.com/ https://www.google.com/]

===Indentation===

If you want your text to be segregated because you want to draw extra attention to it, you can write that important text in a new line and insert a space before your text. Mediawiki will draw a rectangle around your text and change the font to make it stand out more.

 Some very important and interesting text.

===Headings===

====Spacing====

Always leave one empty line before and after each heading, like this:

 Text<br>
 =New Heading=<br>
 Text

====Heading Counter====

The Balisong Wiki supports automatic counting of the headings. There is no need to manually number them. Once you are done with editing an article, the heading numbers will automatically be applied.

====Creating Headings====

To create headings, write the text of the heading between = like this:<br>

 <nowiki>=First Heading=</nowiki>

You can make Sub-Headings by increasing the number of =<br>

 <nowiki>==Sub-Heading for first Heading==</nowiki>

 <nowiki>===Sub-Sub-Heading for first Heading===</nowiki>

====Disable Table Of Contents====

Articles with many chapters will have an automatic table of contents on the top left of that article. To disable the table of contents, put this line as the very first line of the article on which you want to disable this feature

 <nowiki>__NOTOC__ </nowiki>

===Dates===

Dates should be written in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 ISO 8601] standard form.

Here are some examples:<br>

 2024-12-30

 2022-06-01

 2020-01-23

===Break===

If you want to write text in a new line, but do not want the extra empty line that comes with it, you can use the <nowiki><br></nowiki> tag at the end of your line, like this:

 <nowiki>Text<br>
Text</nowiki>

And it will be rendered like this:

 <nowiki>Text
Text</nowiki>