Markup

Pages on this wiki are written in HonoWiki markup. It is in many ways similar to wikitext, the MediaWiki markup — if you’ve edited Wikipedia, most of your habits carry over. Where HonoWiki deliberately goes its own way, the guide says so in a “Different from MediaWiki” note on the relevant page.

The five-minute version


= A heading =
 
''italic'', '''bold''', and a link to [[Another Page]].
 
* a bullet
* another bullet
 
{|
! Header !! Header
|-
| cell || cell
|}
 
![[Photo.png|thumb|A captioned image]]

Section guide

Text formatting — bold, italics, paragraphs, line rules
Headings & TOC — sections, anchors, the table of contents
Links — wikilinks, the slash grammar, external links, magic links
Lists — bullets, numbering, definitions, nesting
Tables — the pipe syntax and the responsive helpers
Advanced table markup — spans, attributes, nesting, card internals
Images & files — embedding, sizing, captions, galleries

Escaping markup with nowiki

Anything wrapped in <nowiki>…</nowiki> is shown literally — it protects tables, headings, links, quotes, lists:


<nowiki>'''not bold''' and [[not a link]]</nowiki>

<nowiki> content is restored after paragraphs are built — so protected text can never start a list, a heading, or a table. The self-closing form <nowiki /> simply disappears, which makes it a handy separator to break up markup:


''ital''<nowiki />ic

The one thing <nowiki> cannot protect is an include. Template expansion runs on the raw source before <nowiki> is processed, so <nowiki>{{Hello}}</nowiki> still includes the template. To show a literal {{Template}}, write the braces as HTML entities — { for { and } for }:


&#123;&#123;Hello&#125;&#125;   →   {{Hello}}

(A lone, unmatched {{ needs no escaping — it renders literally.)

Where markup works

Everywhere page text goes: articles, template pages, image captions (wikilinks only), and inside <ref>/<note> content (links, quotes and external links all render in the popup and the reference list).