 This is a walkthrough of the basics of wiki markup, how to make bold text, and links to other wiki pages. You can try out everything from this video in your own user sandbox page. If you don't already have a sandbox page, enter help colon sandbox tutorial in the wikipedia search box. That page has instructions for starting a sandbox. To begin, press the edit button on your sandbox page. This will open an edit window where you can begin these exercises. We'll start with the very basics, bold. Bolded text appears at the beginning of most articles to mark the subject of the article, so it's one of the first things you'll need to learn. You can make bold text by highlighting it with your mouse, then clicking the B button in the edit toolbar. This adds three single quote marks at the beginning of what you want to be bold, and another three single quote marks at the end. Let's see what this looks like. Go to the bottom of the edit window, enter a brief edit summary to describe your edit, and press save page. It's good to get in the habit of leaving edit summaries every time you edit. It helps you keep track of what you've done, and it makes it easier to collaborate with others. You should have some bolded text on your test page now. Press the edit button and let's continue. This time, we'll make wiki links. These are links that go from one page on wikipedia to another. Let's try it with the word bold. To create a wiki link, highlight the word, then click the link icon in the edit toolbar. This brings up the insert link dialog. Clicking the insert link button will add the code for a wiki link. Two opening square brackets, followed by the article you want to link to, in this case bold, followed by two closing square brackets. Now, enter an edit summary and save. The word bold is now blue, and links to the article about bold. Well, the article for bold is actually called emphasis typography, and that's where the link redirects us. But what if that's not what you wanted to link to? What if you meant boldness, the opposite of being shy? Let's edit the page again. This time, in the insert link dialog, replace bold with boldness in the target page or URL section. Now, pressing the insert link button creates a piped link, which is the wiki markup for a link with text that is different from the name of the article it points to. It consists of two opening square brackets, like a plain link, followed by the name of the article you want to link to, boldness, then a pipe, which you can insert by pressing shift backslash on most keyboards, after the article name. Then the text you want for the link, bold, then two closing square brackets. That's like this, generally. If you save your changes, you'll see the result. The link says bold, and when you click, you get the article boldness. So go ahead, start editing. Be bold.