There are many types of codes available to help change the look and layout of your wiki page. The following codes are some of the very nice basic ones that will help to make your page look nice:

Basic Text Formats

Two very popular text formats are bold and italics. These are very easy to make using the following wiki codes!

Bold: Three apostropies ''' on each side of words makes the text in between bold.
Examples:
'''Word''' becomes Word
'''A whole sentence of stuff''' becomes A whole sentence of stuff

Italics: Two apostropies '' on each side of words makes the text in between italics.
Examples:
''Word'' becomes Word
''A whole sentence of stuff'' becomes A whole sentence of stuff

Bullet Lists & Other Lists

Bullet lists allow you to make indented lists, especially great for presenting data, and sprucing up your page! To make a bullet point, just use an asterisks: *
To indent and make sub-lists, just increase the amount of asterics.
Example:
* Cats
** Big Cats
*** Tiger
*** Lion
*** Cheeta
** Domestic Cats
*** House Cat

This would create a bullet list like this:

• Cats
  • Big Cats
    • Tiger
    • Lion
    • Cheeta
  • Domestic Cats
    • House Cat

If you need an ordered list, just use the pound sign # instead of an asterisks *, and for sublists, again, just increase the number of pound signs you use:
# Wake up
# Get Ready For School
## Shower
## Breakfast
## Pack lunch
# Go to school
## English
## History
## Math
# Come home

This would create a numbered list like this:

1. Wake up
2. Get Ready For School
   1. Shower
   2. Breakfast
   3. Pack lunch
3. Go to school
   1. English
   2. History
   3. Math
4. Come home

Topic Headings and Table of Contents

While you can try to use bold and italics to make headings, an easier way is to use the actual wiki heading codes! Just place an equals sign on either side of your heading, and the Compendium will automatically turn it into a heading!
Example:
=Heading= creates a large heading, like the one you see above that says "Topic Headings"

The more equals signs you use, the smaller the heading will be. Also remember that adding more equals signs tells the Compendium that a heading is actually a subheading.
Example:
=Title=
==Introduction==
===Chapter 1===
====Footnotes====
===Chapter 2===
====Footnotes====
==Conclusion==

You can make your heading say whatever you want.

Once you have 4 or more headings or subheadings, the Compendium will automatically create a table of contents so that others can click easily to sections of your page. This is great if your page is very long! Using headings makes it easier for people to navigate to different parts of your page.

Accidentally Using Wiki Codes

Remember that the Compendium will automatically translate text into wiki codes, so if you need to use a combination of symbols that the Compendium uses to make code, you'll need to use a special "no wiki" code to tell the Compendium to not turn that text into code! The code is: <nowiki> </nowiki> Whatever you place between the "no wiki" tags will be treated as normal text.
Example:

• Normally an asterisks is a bullet point
  

with no wiki tags: <nowiki>*</nowiki> it becomes
* Not a bullet point, just an asterisks now!

More Advanced Wiki Formatting

For more complex wiki codes, like how to make colored text and use tables to space things on pages, you'll want to visit an advanced formatting guide. You can also visit Mediawiki for lists of wiki codes to help your page!