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{{shortcut|T:MARK}}'''Wikitext''' is the standard "language" for editing pages at Tardis, and, more broadly, across the FANDOM network. It's designed to be as simple as possible so that an article may be quickly typed ''and'' styled without having to take a break to type out long HTML codes.  The goal is to make it as easy as possible to channel your thoughts into writing the perfect article (or even a not-so-perfect one).

== Text formatting ==

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To create a tabbed list or a block of text using a monospace font, start the line with a space.  (Be sure not to make the line too long, or it will stretch the page horizontally!)  Text can also be indented using the colon character.

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! What you type

Both unordered and numbered lists are simple to create as well: simply use the asterisk or hash characters at the beginning of a line to create the entry.  To create nested lists, simply add an extra asterisk or hash to the front of the line.  You can even mix and match the kinds of list in a single group!

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! What you type

In a wiki, it's important to help build the web by creating links to other articles in every appropriate context.  Use the following techniques to create "free links" to other Tardis articles:

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! What you type

You can also make external links to other websites using the following formatting rules:

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! What you type

| [[Wikipedia:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]

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One of the most helpful shortcuts one can learn in linking to articles is the so-called "pipe trick".  By placing a pipe (|) after certain strings of text, one can eliminate the need to type huge amounts of replacement text.  For example, if the name of an episode of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'' is shared with a person, place or thing in the [[Doctor Who universe|DWU]], then it will be "disambiguated" with the parenthetical "(TV story)".  [[Castrovalva]] refers to the city, whereas [[Castrovalva (TV story)]] links to the page about the episode.  Generally, when writing a sentence about the TV story, one doesn't want "(TV story)" to appear in the body of text.  To get rid of it, one must enter some replacement text separated by the full article name by a pipe (|}.  The long way of doing that is:

|-align="center"

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=== Interwiki link ===

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[[w:c:nameofwiki:articlename|articlename]]

===== Non-English language link =====

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[[fr:TARDIS]]

Currently, we have the ability to link to many foreign language Wikis, including, but not limited to: French (fr), Russian (ru), Bulgarian (bg), German (de) and Dutch (nl). Note that there must be a corresponding article on the target website for the link to be created successfully. Since use of this particular kind of interwiki link ''always'' produces a golden link, care must be exercised in its use, especially because it is not likely that an article on a non-English wiki will have the exact same name as its English counterpart.  For instance, there are currently no pages at [[TARDIS]] for the Bulgarian, German, and Dutch wiki; typing <nowiki>[[bg:TARDIS]]</nowiki> links to a create page.  Multilingual editors will be required to make these kind of links most successfully.

==== Beware the false golden link ====

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