MediaWiki Formatting

Over the weekend, I added the ability to use a few MediaWiki formatting shortcuts in Bactroid.net on both the ChangeLog entries and the articles. You can now do bulleted and automatically numbered lists by doing something like this…

* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 3

which yields something like this…

  • Item 1
  • Item 2
  • Item 3

Or you can do the number lists like this…

# Item 1
# Item 2
# Item 3

to get something like this…

  1. Item 1
  2. Item 2
  3. Item 3

In addition, you can also use two equal signs to make a subheading. Your markup would look something like this…

== Subheading Title ==

Hopefully you’ll find these new edit styles as useful as I will. I keep all of my brainstorming in wiki-formatted lists, so this has become my lingua franca.

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