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A great help page if you're just getting started with Wiki markup is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

Some notes from the mailing list:

A word to the new from the experienced. I'd recommend that you read and understand the Wikipedia style guide before going too far in populating a new MediaWiki based wiki. I made several mistakes like using initial caps for most words in article titles. This works against the style of using initial caps ONLY for the first word and proper nouns in the title. It's not a fatal mistake, but you end up using the pipe syntax in links much more than you'd like in order to make a link fit into a sentence in an article body. Another mistake I made in my wiki (which focusses on manned spaceflight) was to use pseudo namespaces like Mercury: and Astronaut: this too works against both the link syntax (for example I'd need to put in [[Astronaut:John Glenn|John Glenn]] instead of just [[John Glenn]] as well as making sorted lists of articles less than useful. So I find myself now going through and fixing up all these newbie mistakes.