User:Comptonforbes/sandbox/2018 training again

May 2018 training materials:

Symbols in Wikitext Listed below are the symbols you will see in the Wikitext code. Know where they are on your key pad. Html2.jpg [ ] - square brackets. Used to create links. Missouri { } - curly bracket. Used to create templates.

Missouri < > - angle brackets. Used in div tags, paragraph tags and line breaks: , and / - forward slash. Used in closing tags: These other signs are used as well: colon :, semi-colon ;, parentheses, quotation mark ", apostrophe ' , equal sign =, exclamation mark !, pound sign #, and the @ at sign. You may be wondering just what all the above stuff means, but all will be explained in these lessons. There are other symbols but these will do for now. Html7.jpg
 * - pipe. Used in internal links.

Please do not use the & (ampersand) sign in the title of pages. It causes all sorts of problems in the Wiki code. When you see an & in a title, please substitute the word and for it.