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Welcome to Inkipedia! If you're on this page, you're probably new to Wikicode or just need a little clarification to build that awesome template you've been dreaming of. Look no further, because we've got you covered.

The Basics

	Input	Output	Description
Text	Hello world!	Hello world!
Italics	''Hello world!''	Hello world!	Surrounding text with two quotes either side ('') makes the text italic
Bold	'''Hello world!'''	Hello world!	Surrounding text with three quotes either side (''') makes the text bold
Bold Italics	'''''Hello world!'''''	Hello world!	Surrounding text with five quotes either side (''''') makes the text bold italic
Headings	==The Basics==	See above!	Surrounding text with equals (=) either side makes page headings. The more = signs, the further down in sub-headings it goes.

Internal Links

	Input	Output	Description
Link	[[Inkling]]	Inkling	Surrounding text with two square brackets ([[...]]) makes a link to another article.
	[[Inkling]]s	Inklings	You can put letters immediately following the brackets and they'll be linked too!
Redlink	[[Red link example]]	Red link example	Links to pages on the wiki that don't exist show up in red.
Links with different text	[[Inkling|Squid]]	Squid	You can link to an article but use different text by using a pipe (|). The text on the left-side of the pipe is the destination page, and the text on the right is what you want to display. You'll need to do this for some plural words.
All together	[[Red link example|This doesn't ex]]ist!	This doesn't exist!	Here's everything above, together!
Link to a section	[[#Internal Links]]	#Internal Links	To link to a section header, use a # followed by the header name.
	[[Inkling#Background|Inkling background]]	Inkling background	You can also combine these together.
Namespace	[[Help:Contents|Help contents]]	Help contents	To link to a page in a different namespace (that's like a different section or type of page on the wiki), type its namespace first then a colon, then the page name. For files and categories, this is a bit different.
Categories	[[Category:Browse]]		Categories are added to a page if you "link" to a category. If you instead want to link to the category, use a : before Category, like [[:Category:Splatoon]], or the {{C}} template.
Files	[[:File:Example.png]]	File:Example.png	Files are added to a page if you "link" to a file. See below for more on that! If you instead want to link to the file's page, use a : before File, like [[:File:Example.png]], or the {{F}} template.
Interwiki	[[wikipedia:Splatoon]]	wikipedia:Splatoon	Interwiki links - that is, links that go to another wiki and have been setup by the Inkipedia staff, are in the same form as above
Inkipedia in other languages	[[:es:Splatoon]]	es:Splatoon	These interwiki links work in a similar way to Categories. You need a : before the language code (es for Spanish and fr for French) to link to the article. Without it, the article is added to the "In other languages" section.

External Links

	Input	Output	Description
External Link	[https://www.example.com]	[1]	Surrounding text with one square brackets ([...]) makes an external link that leaves Inkipedia.
	[https://www.example.com Example Website]	Example Website	Instead of pipes, external links treated anything after a space inside the link as the text to displayed.

Templates

	Input	Output	Description
GamePad	{{GP}}		Surrounding text with two curly braces ({{...}}) makes the code that's on the linked template page run on the article.
Left Stick	{{button|LS}} {{button|LS|Switch}}		Templates can have "parameters", which are separated by pipes. A knowledgeable editor will usually write on the template page how everyone can use it!
Right Stick	{{button|RS}} {{button|RS|Switch}}		See {{button}} for more examples

Files

Input	Output
Image	[[File:MarieArt.png]]
Image thumbnail	[[File:MarieArt.png|thumb]]
Image thumbnail with caption	[[File:MarieArt.png|thumb|A caption!]]	A caption!
Image with a maximum width	[[File:MarieArt.png|100px]]
Image with a maximum height	[[File:MarieArt.png|x100px]]
Image with a maximum width and height	[[File:MarieArt.png|100x100px]]
*Note that if an image is given a maximum width and height that do not match its aspect ratio, it will conform to whichever value makes it smaller. For example, the above image becomes 100px wide by 80px tall; if it was 100px tall then it would be 125px wide, which exceeds the given maximum width.
Image that floats to the right	[[File:MarieArt.png|float|right]]	float
*An image with the thumb attribute also floats to the right, but this does so without the frame

For more help on files, see our file help page.

Tables

Main article: Help:Tables

	Input	Output
Table	{| class="wikitable" | Foo |}	Foo
Table with multiple cells	{| class="wikitable" | Foo | Bar |}	Foo Bar
Table with multiple rows	{| class="wikitable" | Foo | Bar |- | Baz | Qux |}	Foo Bar Baz Qux
Table with header cells	{| class="wikitable" ! Foo ! Bar |- | Baz | Qux |}	Foo Bar Baz Qux