Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 15, 2006

Explaining Wiki markup to other users

The &lt;nowiki&gt; tag can be useful to suppress the interpretation of Wiki markup; this is often useful to demonstrate or explain Wiki markup language to another user.

Wiki markup (and Wiki tags that resemble HTML tags) between &lt;nowiki&gt; and &lt;/nowiki&gt; are not interpreted, and are displayed on the page just the way they are typed. Though this is rarely of use in an actual Wikipedia article!

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