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Introduction

This is a very brief summary of the most basic functionality of the Mediawiki platform, the same that powers Wikipedia. A more through description can be found here

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ

Section 4.1, is particularly useful for the first steps:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

Create a new page

There are 2 basic ways:

1. 1. Search for the new page in the search box (in the left of the page) – if the term does not exist it will allow the creation of this page, by pressing the link "You can create this page"
   2. When editing a page, inserting a link to a specific definition (see below, even if the page does not exist, will allow the creation of this new page by following the link.

Editing a page

These are some of the more common formatting issues

Section headings

To define a heading for a section just use the "=" sign to specify the heading level

= Heading 1 =  (best not to use it)
== Heading 2 ==
=== Heading 3 ===
...

Bullets and numbered lists

The basic syntax involves the use of "*" and "#"

*  a bulleted item
** a bulleted item in another level
# - an item in a numbered list
## an item in a numbered list in level 2

Tables

Each table begins with "{|" and ends with "|}" in separate lines. Columns are separated with "||" and a new row starts with "|-" in a new line. Table headings start with “!” for the first column or "!!" for the remaining columns . To add a border, the first line should be "{| - border ="1" ". Here’s a simple example:

{| border ="1"
!Letter !! Number
|-
|Aleph || 1</nowiki>
|-
|Beth ||2
|}
>