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@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-## Help on formatting text
+# Help on formatting text
 
-Text on this wiki is written in a form very close to how you might write
-text for an email message. This style of text formatting is called [[MarkDown]].
+Text on this wiki is, by default, written in a form very close to how you
+might write text for an email message. This style of text formatting is
+called [[MarkDown]], and it works like this:
 
 Leave blank lines between paragraphs.
 
@@ -24,12 +25,15 @@ To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed
 by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the
 size of the header:
 
+# # h1
 ## ## h2
 ### ### h3
 #### #### h4
+##### ##### h5
+###### ###### h6
 
-To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes on their own
-line:
+To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars on
+their own line:
 
 ----
 
@@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
 > To be or not to be,
 > that is the question.
 
-To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 8 spaces:
+To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:
 
 	10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
 	20 GOTO 10
@@ -46,13 +50,15 @@ To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 8 spaces:
 To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
 square brackets, so you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
 
-To link to any other web page, or to an email address, you can just put the url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net>>, or you can use the form
-\[link text\]\(url\)
+To link to any other web page, or to an email address, you can just put the
+url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.info>>, or you can use the
+form \[link text\]\(url\)
 
 ----
 
-Advanced users can use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool
-stuff.
+You can also use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool stuff.
 
-Also, if the smiley plugin is enabled in your wiki, you can insert
-[[smileys]] and some other useful symbols.
+[[if test="enabled(smiley)"  then="""
+Also, because this wiki has the smiley plugin enabled, you can
+insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols.
+"""]]