your colored text
Cannot be colour
color specification accepts #rrggbb format and named html colors (red, blue,etc), including "transparent" (useful for spoiler sections)

[size=3]your sized text[/size]

your sized text

Horizontal dividing line:

----

looks like this:

Quoting & Spoilers

[quote]quoted text
WITH
linebreaks[/quote]

quote:
quoted text
WITH
linebreaks

Text that can be unfolded by clicking:

[spoiler]this is a spoiler[/spoiler]

[Spoiler]

Links & Tooltops

[tooltip=this shows on mouse-over]text[/tooltip]

text

[url=http://www.zero-k.info]Zero-K home page[/url]

Zero-K home page

Linking to wiki pages

When linking to wiki-pages, rather than using the full URL use instead the page's so-called wiki key:

[CommanderGuide]

This creates a link to [CommanderGuide]

Clickable playernames / clans / factions / replays

playername/clanname/faction:

@mojjj / @TheGBC / @SynPact

mojjj /

TheGBC /

SynPact

alternatives for special characters or name collisions:

@U201951 / @C391 / @F1

mojjj /

TheGBC /

SynPact

replays:

@B12345

B12345 2 on Tangerine

Images

[img]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p315/Saktoth/zk_eclipse-1.png[/img]

imges with alt-text:

[img=http://zero-k.info/img/avatars/khomeini2.png.BrokenLinkToUseAltText]this is the alt text[/img]

[img=http://zero-k.info/img/avatars/khomeini2.png.BrokenLinkToUseAltText]this is the alt text[/img]

Videos and animated images

embedded videos - click to play. with sound. no repeat
supported formats: mp4, 3gp, webm, ogg, ogv, gifv
your browser must be version
IE: 9.0+
Chrome: 4.0+
Firefox: 3.5+
Safari: 4.0+
Opera: 10.5+

[vid]http://i.imgur.com/pkBSMVS.mp4[/vid]

embedded videos - autoplay/sound is muted/repeat => just as a gif ;)
supported formats: mp4, 3gp, webm, ogg, ogv, gifv
your browser must be version
IE: 9.0+
Chrome: 4.0+
Firefox: 3.5+
Safari: 4.0+
Opera: 10.5+

[gifv]http://i.imgur.com/pkBSMVS.webm[/gifv]

embed youtube videos

Youtube links ins this form get embedded:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHQkctGTm_A

Note: https or youtu.be does not work.

Uploading images

To upload images to be used in forum-threads, there exist many free picture-host-websites on the internet. ( http://imgur.com , http://photobucket.com ,...)
For images that are meant to be included on wiki-pages it is more reliable to upload images to the zero-K site directly.
(in case the host site goes down or blocks due to "hotlinking" in case of heavy traffic)
Here is how to upload images to zK website:

To get the url of the uploaded image rightclick on it, click 'display graphic' and copy the url.
(It will be your chosen 'shortcut' with _bg added in front of file extension)

Subsections / Chapters and Table of Contents

 
<wiki:toc />   //inserts table of contents
= Heading Level 1 = 
blablabla
== Sub Heading Level 2 ==
blablabla
== Another Sub Heading Level 2 == 
bla
blubblub
= Another Heading Level 1 = 
xyzxyz
xyzxyz

Lists

Unnumbered lists

Adding an space and * in front of a new line like this...

 * Item 1
 * Item 2
 * Item 3

...creates a list:

Item 1
Item 2
Item 3

Tables

|| AAA || BBB || CCC ||
||DDD || EEE || FFF ||
|| GGG || HHH || III ||

creates a table:

AAA	BBB	CCC
DDD	EEE	FFF
GGG	HHH	III

Inside the cells can be more formating.

Zero-K is a free real time strategy (RTS), that aims to be the best open source multi-platform strategy game available :-)