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Wiki Syntax Rules: Wiki uses its own syntactical rule set. It may seem rather terse and complex when you read it here, but it really is quite simple and natural as you do it.
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Creating Headings Any line containing at least two words, all of which are capitalized, becomes a heading.
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Any Other Line: That starts with one or more capitalized words followed by a colon becomes a sub-heading.
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| | Each line is intended as many times as there are spaces at the beginning.
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Creating Lists Any line starting with a "bullet identifier" becomes a line in a list. Bullet identifiers (including numbered and non-numbered) can be mixed-and-matched at will. The supported bullet identifiers are as follows:
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 | Question Mark (?): Creates a "question item" |
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 | Exclamation Mark (!): Creates an "action item" |
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| — | Hyphen (-): Creates a hyphenated line |
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| • | Period (.): Creates a bulleted line |
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| 1. | Number: Creates a numbered line. Any numbered line starting with one resets the list counter. Lines starting with numbers other than one are renumbered as necessary. Likewise, the list counter is reset with every heading. |
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Automatic Linking Text in a Wiki page is scanned for several patterns, which automatically produce links of the following types:
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| — | Any word with "CamelBack" capitalization (meaning "UPPERCASE lowercase UPPERCASE lowercase" etc) becomes a link to a page with its corresponding name, such as ScanWiki. |
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| — | Any group of words surrounded and separated by underscores (_) becomes a link to a page with its corresponding name, such as Home. |
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| — | Any IP address in the form 1.2.3.4 or network address written as 1.2.3.x become a link to a page with the same name. |
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| — | the name of a file links to the attachment with that name, when present. |
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Formatting Notes | — | Words surrounded by asteriks (*) become bold. |
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| — | Words surrounded by forward-slashes (/) become italicized. |
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| — | Words surrounded by pound-signs (#) are shown as code. |
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HTML Notes | — | WikiSyntax and HTML can be freely intermixed, though care must be taken to avoid conflicting with the other automated markup rules. |
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| | | | Note: To insert HTML code that should be visible to the user, be sure to replace the '<' and '>' with '<' and '>', respectively, |
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| — | Text surrounded by <HTML> and </HTML> tags will be ignored by Wiki and passed to the browser without alteration. |
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| | | | Note: For security reasons, only a subset of HTML tags are allowed in Wiki pages. The specific set allowed is up to the administrator; click Help when editing a page to see the complete list of acceptable HTML tags. |
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