Wiki Formats

You use a markup format to create wiki pages that will be nicely formatted when viewed as HTML. You select one markup format for all of the wiki pages in a space.

We offer four markup formats.

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG is your best option if you do not want to learn a wiki markup language, or if you want to paste formatted text from HTML or word processor documents.

When you choose the WYSIWYG format, you will get a graphical, What You See Is What You Get editor. We use FckEditor.

You have more formatting choices with the WYSIWYG editor, but you will need to be careful how you use them. Textile and Markdown are more appropriate if you want to quickly type in content with a standard style.

Textile

Textile is a traditional wiki markup format that that looks like this:
*bold* for bold
h1. for a big Header 1 line
"link here":http://link_url for a link

Textile also allows you to type plain text with paragraph breaks and http:// links, so it a good way to start using wiki markup, and we use it as a default.

For more information visit this textile site.

Markdown

Markdown is a traditional wiki markup format that that looks like this:
**bold** for bold
# for a big Header 1 line
[link here](http://link_url) for a link

For more information visit the markdown site.

Text

Text is the simplest markup format. With this format, you can type to create paragraphs, and http:// to create links. You do not have any other formatting choices. We recommend Textile format instead, because it allows you to start with text format, and gives you the choice of adding more formatting later.

Adding Pictures to the Wiki

Every page looks better with a picture. You can upload pictures using the upload form on the sidebar of the wiki edit page. You can add the pictures with the URL /file// . Pictures will be uploaded to the Files list in the space.