Definitions
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- noun Internet A
lightweight markup language used to format and structurepages inwikis .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The other essential wikitext that you can just type on the page in the wiki editor is the table of contents tag -- I teach this to my students in the first lesson -- [[toc]] anywhere on the page will take the headings and make it into a table of contents.
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The trick to doing this well is that you just do text at the beginning, not photographs or videos which would require you to go into wikitext to copy the changes -- something that just sends beginners into orbit!
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Sometimes a page will "glitch" and I have to go into wikitext to fix it -- particularly with the headings.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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The other essential wikitext that you can just type on the page in the wiki editor is the table of contents tag -- I teach this to my students in the first lesson -- [[toc]] anywhere on the page will take the headings and make it into a table of contents.
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Sometimes a page will "glitch" and I have to go into wikitext to fix it -- particularly with the headings.
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The trick to doing this well is that you just do text at the beginning, not photographs or videos which would require you to go into wikitext to copy the changes -- something that just sends beginners into orbit!
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You totally lost me with the comment about wikitext.
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You totally lost me with the comment about wikitext.
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As English Wikipedia has around 7.5GB of text August 2007, length of wikitext counted by myself ≈ 1250 volumes.
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As English Wikipedia has around 7.5GB of text August 2007, length of wikitext counted by myself ≈ 1250 volumes.
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