Help:Contents

This is the help page for those in Science Theatre who want to edit the wiki. I will list below some basic formatting information so you can get started.

If you run into any issues, please contact either the Outreach Coordinator for the Physics department or the current Head Director for Science Theatre.

Getting Started

Titles

To make a Title, put a set of equal signs (==) on either side of the title text. "Getting started" has one equal sign on each side.

adding extra equal signs will make the title different sizes.

Sample 1

two on each side

Sample 2

three on each side

Sample 3

four on each side

It is worth noting that the title needs to be on it's own line. = Sample Title = Won't work here because it is on this line of text.

If you inset a space before the first equal sign, you will make it a separate box.

= Sample Title =

Simple Formatting

To put space between lines, you have to put two spaces between them on the edit screen.

If you put two between, they are on separate lines. If you start a sentence immediately under another, they will follow each other on one line.

To make a dotted list, use asterisks (*)

• Each one will start a new line
• You do not need to put extra space between them to continue the list

To make a numbered list, put the pound sign (#) at the start of each line.

1. It will automatically start at 1
2. It will continue until you break the sequence
3. If you break a sequence, then it will go back to one

breaking sequence here

1. If you do not wish to have it restart, then manually insert the next number.

If you want to put something inside of a box on-screen, insert a space at the start of the sentence.

That space will insert the text into a box
* Inside the box, a bulleted list won't work properly
# A numbered list does not work in this way inside the box

• For Italics, use two apostrophes (')
• For Bold, use three.
• For Bold and Italic, use five.

Additional Formatting Tools

If you want to leave a comment in the editing screen, and not on the webpage, put an arrow on each side, with the left arrow having an exclamation point.

 Left Side: <!--
 Right Side: --> 

If you want the wiki to NOT format something in a certain way, put "pre" in brackets (<>) in front and /pre at the end in brackets.