Wiki Text

Summary

All Memorize.com pages have wiki text underlying them. You can edit and add to the page by editing the wiki text.

 

When you click an "edit" link on a page (see Editing Quickstart) you'll see the wiki text for that page. Wiki text is just plain text. But, it lets you use colons, equals, and hypens to make table rows, headings, and bullet points (and more).

 

It is a little tricky to get used to, but quite flexible and powerful once you get used to it. Though, if you prefer, you can always use the wizards and never have to edit wiki text.

Wiki text for a typical page

The wiki text to create a simple page with a heading and a table with 2 rows might look like this:

 

= Capitals
France : Paris
Japan : Tokyo

 

As you can see, it's pretty simple. You put "=" at the beginning of a line to make it a heading, and put " : " in a line to make it into a table row.

 

When used for real, it will look like this:

Capitals

Question	Answer
France	Paris
Japan	Tokyo
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Click the "edit" link to the right of the "Capitals" heading and above the thin gray line. (Note you have to move your mouse over this section to make the "edit" link appear.) Then you'll see the wiki text underlying this section.

Seeing wiki text samples while editing

When you are editing a page, you can click the "toolbar" link (to the right) and then the "samples" link to see samples of wiki text.

Learn wiki text

Basics

If you learn this table, you'll know pretty much all you need to edit most things.

 

thing	how to type it
heading	= Heading
memorize table	red : rojo green : verde
bullet point	- bullet point (starts with a hyphen)
paragraph	Nothing special, just type sentences. (leave blank lines between paragaphs)
link to page named "Spanish"	[Spanish]
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Advanced

thing	how to type it
emphasized	~emphasized~
(emphasized less)	((emphasized less))
table with labels	english :: spanish red : rojo
linebreak within a table	red : rojo <br> granate
small heading	== Heading
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Tips / Things to know

Question	Answer
Ways to edit wiki text	Click an "edit" link or double-click a row during learning
Add hints or extra information to rows	Use emphasis or (less emphasis)
Way to help people understand	Add paragraphs to your page (like the paragraphs on this page)
Way to make tables easier to learn	Break them up into smaller tables (by adding blank lines between them)
How to "import" tables	Just paste in a bunch of lines that contain " : " (such as "Paris : France")
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Images and Maps

Here is the wiki text for creating maps, images, and diagrams. Note, though, that it is often simpler to click "create" to use a wizard to create one of them, and then copy and paste the resulting wiki text into an existing page.

 

thing	how to type it
map	[map: A=Bahamas, B=Cuba]
image	http://website.com/image.gif
diagram	[diagram: http://website.com/image.gif, A=10x6, B=20x6]
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