Mediawiki editing quick formatting reference
I have been forever annoyed in Mediawiki for having to look up the subtle differences in formatting markup, especially after writing Markdown for a while. That “Editing help” at the bottom of a Mediawiki edit page takes you to a whole editor help page and buried in the middle is “Help:Formatting” that I really want. Between either getting the formatting wrong the first time, going back to edit it, or digging for the formatting guide takes me out of the writing flow.
But today I found out you can edit the “MediaWiki:Edittools” page, which lets you add your own stuff below the editor. Fire that up, add in your own quick reference like https://gist.github.com/bwann/b9981500d21965275dd9cad6637bc50c and you’re in business!
