Wikivoyage:Wiki markup

Wikivoyage uses a special code called Wiki markup for formatting the text and images in an article. The Wiki markup used while editing a page will determine how the text looks and what links and images are in the page.

When editing Wikivoyage articles, try to follow the conventions in the Manual of style. These are guidelines for making a "good" Wikivoyage article; if you don't quite get all of them, then just do what you can, and someone else will come through and clean up your work after you're done.

Special links
Links to articles on the same topic in some special namespaces appeared, not in the article itself, but in the "Related sites" and "In other languages" sidebars. Most of these links are now deprecated as Wikidata now provides the same functionality.

These links were placed at the end of the article, in this order:
 * Links to other language versions of Wikivoyage had the format xx:Article, where "xx" is the code for the language being linked to.
 * Links to Wikipedia had the format Article.

Any remaining links in this format have been replaced with RelatedWikipedia and RelatedCommonsCat templates as a transitional measure; where they duplicate Wikidata functionality, these are being removed from the articles.

Listings
Content in the template tags see, do, buy, eat, drink and sleep is automatically formatted into a listing for an attraction, activity, store, restaurant, bar or accommodation. These listings can be automatically added and edited using the listing editor, and you should generally not need to touch their contents in the page editor; see Listings for details.

Templates
Text enclosed in curly brackets  –  is used to insert the contents of templates into text. For example,   produces the following:

See Template index for a full list.

Tables
Think twice before you add a table to Wikivoyage: many things like complicated transport schedules go out of date pretty much instantly and are thus better not added. But if you insist, here's how they work:

So, for example, this:

Looks like this:

Comments
Text enclosed between the special comment characters  is not displayed. This can be used to leave instructions or warnings visible only when editing the page, but should be used sparingly.