The document describes wiki markup tags for formatting text, creating lists, links, images, templates and tables on MediaWiki. It provides the syntax for headings, code, lists, definitions, formatting text, templates, categories, links, images and tables using wiki markup tags.

1. packetlife.net
by Jeremy Stretch v2.1
MEDIAWIKI
Headers
=Text= <h1>Text</h1>
==Text== <h2>Text</h2>
===Text=== <h3>Text</h3>
====Text==== <h4>Text</h4>
=====Text===== <h5>Text</h5>
======Text====== <h6>Text</h6>
Code
<code>Text</code> <code>Text</code>
<code><pre>Text</pre></code> <code><pre>Text</pre></code>
Miscellaneous
<nowiki>Suppress [[wiki]]
'''markup'''</nowiki>
Suppress [[wiki]]
'''markup'''
<!-- a comment --> <!-- a comment -->
Lists
* Sizes
* Shapes
* Colors
** Blue
** Green
<ul>
<li>Sizes</li>
<li>Shapes</li>
<li>Colors
<ul>
<li>Blue</li>
<li>Green</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
# First
# Second
# Third
<ol>
<li>First</li>
<li>Second</li>
<li>Third</li>
</ol>
; Term 1 : Foo
; Term 2 : Bar
; Term 3 : Baz
<dl>
<dt>Term 1</dt>
<dd>Foo</dd>
<dt>Item 2</dt>
<dd>Bar</dd>
<dt>Item 3</dt>
<dd>Baz</dd>
</dl>
Formatting
''Text'' <i>Text</i>
'''Text''' <b>Text</b>
'''''Text'''''
<ins>Text</ins>
<del>Text</del>
<i><b>Text</b></i>
<ins>Text</ins>
<del>Text</del>
Templates
Unnamed variables Books by {{{1}}}
Invoking the template {{Author|Palahniuk}}
Named variables Books by {{{name}}}
Invoking the template {{Author|name=Palahniuk}}
Categories
Assign object to a category [[Category:Humor]]
Link to a category [[:Category:Humor]]
Links
[[packet switching]] <a href="Packet_switching">packet switching</a>
[[packet switching|packet switched]] <a href="Packet_switching">packet switched</a>
IP [[network]]ing
IEEE [[802.3 (Ethernet)|]]
[http://google.com/]
[http://google.com/ Google]
IP <a href="Network">networking</a>
IEEE <a href="802.3_(Ethernet)">802.3</a>
<a href="http://google.com/">http://google.com/</a>
<a href="http://google.com/">Google</a>
Images
[[Image:photo.png]] <a href="Image:photo.png"><img src="photo.png" /></a>
[[Image:photo.png|Alt text]] <a href="Image:photo.png"><img src="photo.png" alt="Alt text" /></a>
[[Image:photo.png|30 px]] <a href="Image:photo.png"><img src="30px-photo.png" /></a>
[[:Image:photo.png|A photo]] <a href="Image:photo.png">A photo</a>
Tables
{|
|+
|-
!
|
|}
Starts a table
Table caption (optional; one per table)
Begin a new row
Table header
Table cell
Table end
<tt>Text</tt> <tt>Text</tt>