Help:Advanced wiki markup

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The BTWiki software has some advanced commands that are helpful for more obscure or advanced editing.

Contents 1 Nifty wiki commands 2 "Special" pages 3 Automatic TOC 4 Magic words and wiki variables

[edit] Nifty wiki commands

• • <nowiki>blah blah</nowiki> allows you to display wiki commands in an article without them being interpreted, like this: <nowiki>Use three quotes '''like this''' to bold text.</nowiki>

[edit] "Special" pages

The wiki has a raft of pages in the "Special" namespace--that is, the page names start with "Special:". For example: Special:Newpages is a list of the most recently created articles. You can see many of these Special pages by clicking Special pages in the left toolbox area.

You can reference these pages in text like any other articles, for example:

[[Special:Newpages]]

[edit] Automatic TOC

The wiki software automatically displays a table of contents (TOC) for an article when it has 4 or more subheadings. In some rare cases, it would be better for a page to have no TOC. In that page, insert the text __NOTOC__ .

[edit] Magic words and wiki variables

In addition to the NOTOC "magic word", there are a ton of other magic words and variables available. For more info:

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words for a list of magic words and variables
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable for details about the variables