Raiazome stylizes Wiki page text via the Wiki Creole markup standard. Click the Edit this page link at the foot of any page to view that page’s Wiki Creole markup.

Cheat Sheet

Raiazome extends the Wiki Creole markup standard with a few Raiazome-specific additions — like so:

This…	…Becomes
#TITLE New Title	This page’s title.
#SUBTITLE New Subtitle	This page’s subtitle.
#REDIRECT [[Target_Page]]	Redirect this page to Target_Page.
DeletedPage	Mark this page as deleted.
<include "Source_Page">	Include Source_Page in this page.
<hibernal post_names="^Blog--\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d" posts_start_at="0" posts_per_page="4">	Include all pages matching “^Blog--\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d” as blog posts in this page.
Footnoted text.((This is a footnote.))	Footnoted text.1
<footnotes>	Display the set of all footnotes for this page.
<toc>	Display a table of contents for this page.
Link to [[HomePage|another Wiki page]].	Link to another Wiki page.
Link to [[http://www.oddmuse.org|an external website]].	Link to an external website.
Image with {{http://oddmuse.org/pics/musegarden.png| a title}}	Image with
= Large heading == Medium heading === Small heading	Large heading Medium heading Small heading
//italics//	italics
**bold**	bold
##monospaced##	monospaced
%%Small Capsed%%	Small Capsed
H,,2,,O	H2O
E=mc^^2^^	E=mc2
Ellipses: ...	Ellipses: …
En-dash: --	En-dash: –
Em-dash (hyphen): ---	Em-dash (hyphen): —
Horizontal line: ----	Horizontal line:
Right arrow: ->	Right arrow: →
* Bullet list * Second item ** Sub item	Bullet list Second item Sub item
# Numbered list # Second item ## Sub item	Numbered list Second item Sub item
''inline quotes''	inline quotes
""" block quotes, spanning **multiple paragraphs**. """	block quotes, spanning multiple paragraphs.
::: Poetry spanning multiple stanzas, //and// preserving whitespace. :::	Poetry     spanning multiple        stanzas,   and preserving whitespace.
|=|=table|=header| |a|table|row| |b|table|row|	Table
No linebreak! Use empty row	No linebreak! Use empty row
Force\\linebreak	Force linebreak
{{{ == [[NoWiki]]: //**don't** format// }}}	== [[NoWiki]]: //**don't** format//

Page Markup

Raiazome stylizes Wiki page text via the Wiki Creole markup standard.

What is Wiki Creole?

Wiki Creole is a “common Wiki markup language to be used across different Wikis.” It allows you to stylize page text by marking up that text — as shown above — with textual mnemonics: simple, simply rememberable syntax, symbols, and symbolic patterns.

Let’s run through a few.

Page Editing

Raiazome is a public-access Wiki. We happily, publicly encourage you to access, create, edit, and comment on all pages on this Wiki. This Wiki does not require new Wiki users to create an account or username, enter a password, or otherwise authenticate themselves.

You may:

• Edit any existing page by clicking “Edit this page” at the bottom of that page; or
• Comment on any existing page by clicking “Comment on this page” at the bottom of that page.

You may notice that the username: field is appended with the text, ~ optional. As that text suggests, you do not have to enter a username (or any other field appended with the text, ~ optional) to save page edits or comments.

You do, however, have to answer a reCAPTCHA. This prevents abuse by ensuring that only humans — and not non-human automatons like Wiki spambots, robot spiders, or automated scripts — can edit and comment on Wiki pages. (The reCAPTCHA service will reuse your answer to improve its optical character recognition (OCR) algorithms, for converting old books into digital format. This is a good thing; or better than no thing, anyway.)

Page edits, once saved, are visible to any users visiting that page. Page comments, once saved, are only visible to users explicitly visiting the comments page for that page. The comments page for a page is a separate page, whose name is the name of the page it comments on prefixed with “Comment_on_”. As page comments are, therefore, less visible than page edits, Raiazome recommends that, rather than comment on that page, you edit that page directly.

Page comments are, however, probably more appropriate for threading of interpersonal messages.

This is a Wiki. Please behave responsibly; and we grant you the same.

Page Creation

You may create a new page by either:

• Browsing to the new page in your browser and click the Edit this page link.
• Editing any existing page, adding a link to the new page, saving your edit, and clicking the grey question mark following that new link.

For example, suppose you’d like to create a new page named http://www.raiazome.com/New_Page. Then, you may either browse to that URL in your browser or save the following text to any existing page:

[[New Page]]

You should see a grey question mark following that new link. This indicates that page does not yet exist. Clicking that question mark creates it.

Page Deletion

To prevent abuse, pages cannot be immediately deleted. They can, however, be marked for later deletion.

You may mark a page for deletion by changing that page’s first line to:

DeletedPage

The page will be deleted, permanently, during the next run of Wiki maintenance.

Page Renaming

Pages cannot be renamed, at the moment. Instead, please:

• Create a new page having the new name.
• Copy the old page’s page text into the new page.
• Delete the old page by replacing its page text with the text “DeletedPage”, as above.

Raiazome administrators are working to simplify this — but this is what it is.

Page Redirecting

You may also redirect users from one page to another. The syntax is a bit strange; let’s consider a straightforward example.

Suppose there exists one page named http://www.raiazome.com/Target_Page and one page named http://www.raiazome.com/Source_Page. Furthermore, suppose that the page named http://www.raiazome.com/Source_Page has as its page text the following single line:

#REDIRECT [[Target_Page]]

Then, http://www.raiazome.com/Source_Page will automatically redirect users to http://www.raiazome.com/Target_Page. (You may use this to good effect by creating synonyms, shortcuts, and aliases to existing pages.)

Page Titles

You may title a page by adding a line like this to the page text for that page:

#TITLE The New Title for This Page

By default, Raiazome titles pages according to the Wiki names for those pages. A hypothetical page named http://www.raiazome.com/Wiki--Markup will be titled “Wiki--Markup”. By adding an explicit title to a page, you circumvent this default.

Page Subtitles

You may subtitle a page by adding a line like this to the page text for that page:

#SUBTITLE The New Subtitle for This Page

By default, Raiazome does not subtitle pages. If you want a page to be subtitled, you must add an explicit subtitle to that page.

File Uploads

To prevent abuse, you cannot upload files, images, or other documents — at the moment. Our thin apologies.

For pages requiring images, please consider uploading those images to an offsite image host. Raiazome tends to use the free Zooomr service, but also recommends the equally free Flickr service.

Page Text Markup

Links

You may link to:

• Other pages on other websites.
• Other pages on this Wiki. (This is known as intralinking.)
• Other pages on other Wikis. (This is known as interlinking.)

To link to a page on another website, precede that page’s URL with two open brackets and succeed it with two close brackets (and optionally describe that page by separating its name from its description with a pipe), [[http://likethis.org]] — which looks http://likethis.org — or [[http://likethis.org|like a page described like this]] — which looks like a page described like this.

To intralink to another page on this Wiki, precede that page’s name with two open brackets and succeed it with two close brackets (and optionally describe that page by separating its name from its description with a pipe), [[Like_This]] — which looks Like_This — or [[Like_This|like a page described like this]] — which looks like a page described like this.

To intralink to another page on another Wiki, precede that page’s name with two open brackets, the name of that Wiki, and a colon, and succeed that page’s name with two close brackets (and optionally describe that page by separating its name from its description with a pipe), [[Wikipedia:Like_This]] — which looks Wikipedia:Like_This — or [[Wikipedia:Like_This|like a page on another Wiki described like this]] — which looks like a page on another Wiki described like this. For a list of all Wiki names recognized by this Wiki, see this Wiki's Intermap.

Images

You may display an image hosted by another website by surrounding the URL to that image in two braces, {{http://oddmuse.org/pics/musegarden.png|like this}} — which looks .

To prevent abuse, you cannot (currently) upload images to this Wiki. Our humblest apologies, here. Please consider uploading your images to one of these free image-hosting services:

• Zooomr.
• Flickr.

Typefaces

You may make text bold by surrounding it in two asterisks, **like this**.

You may make text italic by surrounding it in two backslashes, //like this//.

You may make text monospaced by surrounding it in two pound signs, ##like this##.

You may make text small capsed by surrounding it in two percent signs, %%like this%%.

You may make text supercased by surrounding it in two carets, ^^^{like this}^^.

You may make text subcased by surrounding it in two commas, ,,_{like this},,.

Lastly — you may mix, match, and mingle typefaces by combining two or more of the above patterns. For example, make text bold, italic, and small capsed by surrounding it in two astericks, two backslashes, and two percent signs, **//%%like this%%//**. (Hopefully, your result will be coherent. It usually is. For a whimsical afternoon, try and mix ‘em all!)

Escapes

You may prevent a character from being interpreted as Wiki markup by preceding it with one tilde, ~*~*like this~*~*.

You may prevent a string of characters from being interpreted as Wiki markup by preceding it with three open braces and succeeding it with three close braces, {{{**like this**}}}.

Quotes

You may inline quote text by surrounding it in either two single quotes, ''like this'', or one double quote, "like this" — which looks like this.

You may block quote text by surrounding it in three double quotes followed by a newline,

"""
like this.
"""

Lists

You may also create numbered and unnumbered (i.e., bulleted) lists — which may, themselves, be deeply nested within other lists.

Create numbered lists by preceding each first-level list item with a pound sign, each second-level list item with two pound signs, each third-level list item with three pound signs, and so on, like this:

# First first-level list item.
## First second-level list item.
## Second second-level list item.
### First third-level list item.
## Third second-level list item.
## Fourth second-level list item.
# Second first-level list item.

Which looks like this:

1. First first-level list item.
   1. First second-level list item.
   2. Second second-level list item.
      1. First third-level list item.
   3. Third second-level list item.
   4. Fourth second-level list item.
2. Second first-level list item.

Alternatively, create unnumbered (i.e., bulleted) lists by preceding each first-level list item with an asterisk, each second-level list item with two asterisks, each third-level list item with three asterisks, and so on, like this:

* First first-level list item.
** First second-level list item.
** Second second-level list item.
*** First third-level list item.
** Third second-level list item.
** Fourth second-level list item.
* Second first-level list item.

Which looks like this:

• First first-level list item.
  • First second-level list item.
  • Second second-level list item.
    • First third-level list item.
  • Third second-level list item.
  • Fourth second-level list item.
• Second first-level list item.

Definition Lists

You may also create dictionary-style lists of definition terms and one or more definitions for those terms. The syntax, here, is a wee complex — but no moreso than other Wikified complexity.

Define a list of definition terms by preceding each term with a semicolon and each term definition with a color, like this:

; First term
: This is the first term's definition.
; Second term
: This is the first definition for the second term.
: This is the second definition for the second term.
: This is the third definition for the second term.
; Third term
  : This is the third term's definition (indented just for show).

Which looks like this:

First term

This is the first term’s definition.

Second term

This is the first definition for the second term.

This is the second definition for the second term.

This is the third definition for the second term.

Third term

This is the third term’s definition (indented just for show).

Tables

You may also create tables. The syntax, here, gets quite complex. Bear with us, as we traipse down the aisle of syntax discovery.

Create a table by surrounding the text for each table cell in pipes (that is, the ’|’ character) and the text for each table cell header in pipes and one equals sign, like this:

|= Table Column 1 |= Table Column 2 |
|This is table cell (0, 0).  |  This is table cell (1, 0).  |
|  This is table cell (1, 0).|This is table cell (1, 1).|
|| This is table cell (2, 0), which spans two columns, and..

...two paragraphs! **As you can see**, you may use any markup within a table cell that you would use outside of a table cell. |

Which looks like this:

Thus, you have fine-grained control over:

• Table cell headers;
• Table cell justification; and
• Table cell width.