Editing Help:Wikitext

== WikiText ==

Wikitext is special markup used by the MediaWiki software to render text as wiki pages. The final rendered page is in HTML. It was intended to simply HTML creation when visual editors were not so common. While [[Wiki:VisualEditor|visual editors]] are now common most still do not support the full range and it is important to know the basic concepts of Wikitext for being an effective author of pages in IoTWiki.

Wikitext do the following
*'''Format'''  
Bold, italics, underline text
*'''Structure''' 
**Insert picture or other media  
**Implicitly create sections and add to Automatically created Table of Contents(ToC)
**Tables and columns 
**mark references,footnotes, citations
**Internal links within IoTWiki to a page or a section in a page.
**Intralinks to Wikipedia 
**external links  
*'''Processing Directives''' 
**Instruct the page renderer to do special stuff.Like insert a ''refrences'' or ''Also See'' list, ToC etc or ''redirect'' the user to another page.
**Category The page can be added to one or more Category used to help navigation 
**Message to readers, editors that the page needs attention 
**Templates <nowiki>{{TemplateName}}</nowiki> can be used to inject reusable text and formatting for consistent style. Templates can have parameters and can function as a <code>subroutine with special code</code>. 
**''Tracker Categories''   add the article or section to ''tracker or administrative category'' ( not a Article navigation hierarchy or taxonomy) which can be used to list Articles needing attention ( Stub, need expansion, need cleanup for advertisement ). Frequently done thru Templates.
'''Usage'''

See MediWiki illustrated examples [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples Wikitext examples].
==Templates==
Templates insert text and other wikitext at run time into pages. This allows modular construction of pages and consistent formatting and messages. See articles under [[:Category:Showcase]] for an annotation that these artickes belong to a special group.

This is what you place <nowiki>{{Showcase|test of template}}</nowiki> and this is what you get 

{{Showcase|test of template}}

Wikipedia templates are not available by default in IoTWiki and need to be imported and may need developer assistance. See Some templates in Wikipedia
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages| Messages]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates| Reference]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki:Category:List_templates| List Templates]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes| InfoBoxes]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Navigation_template| Navigation Boxes]]

==No Grammer==
Wikitext has no official grammar or syntax and evolves over time. This has made it difficult for a proper WYSIWYG editor.
==HTML==
Wikitext mixes withe [https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext restricted HTML] . IMG and Anchor tag are not supported. Image formatting is restricted to wikitext options. Style attribute is supported but borders and size may not work. 
===Colour===
See [[Help:Colour]]. 
''Prefer'' lavender, skyblue,lightbrown,silver,amber,beige, khaki,lightcyan,lightsteelblue
{|
! Category !! Color-Code !! Color-Name
|-
! bgcolor="yellow" | Singles ||  #FFFF00 || yellow
|-
! bgcolor="khaki" | Protists || #F0E68C || khaki
|-
! bgcolor="lavender" | Saints ||  #B57EDC || lavender
|-
! bgcolor="#87CEEB" | Planes ||  #87CEEB || skyblue
|-
! bgcolor="lightskyblue" | Royal Air Force Squadrons|| #87CEFA || lightskyblue
|-
! bgcolor="deepskyblue" | Royal Air Force Stations|| #00BFFF || deepskyblue
|-
! style="background: navy; color: white" | Ships || #000080 || Navy
|-
! bgcolor="plum" | Cover and tribute albums || #DDA0DD || plum
|-
! bgcolor="lightgrey" | Bacteria || #D3D3D3 || lightgrey
|-
! bgcolor="silver" | Constellations || #C0C0C0 || silver
|-
! bgcolor="darkgray" | Archaea || #A9A9A9 || darkgray
|-
! bgcolor="lightsteelblue" | NFL Football players || #B0C4DE || lightsteelblue
|-
! bgcolor="#F8EABA" | Entertainer || #F8EABA || lightbrown
|-
! bgcolor="#D3D3D3" | Director || #D3D3D3 || lightgrey
|-
! bgcolor="#87CEFA" | Male actor || #87CEFA || lightskyblue
|-
! bgcolor="#FFF8C6" | Child star || #FFF8C6 || beige
|-
! bgcolor="#FFD700" | Model || #FFD700 || gold
|-
! bgcolor="#FFFF00" | Announcer || #FFFF00 || yellow
|-
! bgcolor="#F0E68C" | Singer || #F0E68C || khaki
|-
! bgcolor="#E0FFFF" | Male singer || #E0FFFF || lightcyan
|-
! bgcolor="#B0C4DE" | Group || #B0C4DE || lightsteelblue
|}

==CheatSheet==
[[File:Wiki markup cheatsheet_commons_help.jpg| left|upright|border| CheatSheet]]