How to Create a Checklist in Mediawiki

Numbering or bulleting lists improves readability.

MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia, Wikiquote and many other wiki sites. The software standardizes formatting markup to keep pages consistent and enable users to edit pages without having to learn HTML. Creating a checklist in MediaWiki is a simple matter of adding markup characters to the beginning of each list item. Once you learn the markup, you can create complex lists with ease.

Instructions

1. Navigate to the page of the wiki you want to edit. Click on the edit link for the appropriate section. By default, MediaWiki puts the edit links at the bottom right of each section of a page.

2. Create a bulleted list by preceding each list item with an asterisk and then a space. For example:

   * Item 1

   * Item 2

   * Item 3

3. Create a numbered list by preceding each list item with a hash mark and then a space. For example:

   # Item A

   # Item B

   # Item C

4. Create a list mimicking checklists that have empty items and checked items by preceding each list item with a colon for indent and then the HTML symbol entities Ο and Ø for unchecked and checked list items. For example:

   :Ο Incomplete Task

   :Ο Incomplete Task

   :Ø Completed Task

Tips & Warnings

• By default, installations of MediaWiki do not require user permissions to be assigned or even for a user to be logged in to edit a page. If your wiki has stricter permissions, you will need to contract the site's sysop to get a user account and editing permissions.

References

• MediaWiki: Help: Formatting
• MediaWiki: About: MediaWiki
• MediaWiki: Help: Sysops and Permissions

Resources

• MediaWiki: Help