Help:Editing

Tags, wikilinks and stuff

There are certain tags which will effect words they are "wrapped around":

Formatting of words

The ' are used in formatting words:

''Italics'' (2x ') will make Italics

'''Bold''' (3x ') to write in Bold

'''''Hi all!''''' (5x ') will print Hi all!

Placing headlines

Headlines come in various sizes.

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How to wikify

This is probably the most important of the tags. To wikify a sentence means to make the sentence link to the corresponding article on the mersennewiki. This is done by putting [[ and ]] around the word.

An example:

"The person who runs the [[GIMPS]] project is [[George Woltman]]"

will make:

"The person who runs the GIMPS project is George Woltman".

It it also possible to link to another article. That is done by using | inside the [[ ]] to seperate link and word.

An example would be:

"Certain [[Lucas-Lehmer test|tests]] are used in [[GIMPS]], which is the biggest mathematical [[Distributed computing project|project]]"

which would turn up as:

"Certain tests are used in GIMPS, which is the biggest mathematical project"

Links

To add a link to a page outside mersennewiki you could either just type the URL:

"To get more info, please visit http://www.mersenneforum.org"

or you could make a description by putting it in the form [link title]. That would turn

"To get more info, please visit [http://www.mersenneforum.org the Official forum]"

into "To get more info, please visit the Official forum"

Math symbols

To write mathematical formulas, insert <math> and </math> around your formula.

For example

"The [[Sierpiński problem]] is about numbers of the form <math>k*2^n+1</math>"

would show

"The Sierpiński problem is about numbers of the form [math]\displaystyle{ k*2^n+1 }[/math]"

For more detailed help with math formulas, see math rendering Template:InfoboxHelp