TwicI allows you to write a table. WikiTable__s are done with the | character, in a way somewhat similar to WikiList__s: the start of each row is marked by a | at the beginning of the line, and a block is recognised as a table by the fact that it starts with a |. Tables are different to lists in that the | also serves to separate the cells in each row. Within the cells, the normal WikiText formatting rules work (italic, bold, WikiNames, etc). The first row in a table is taken a heading. The | character doesn't have a particularly exciting name (unlike #, which is officially known as an octothorpe); most people call it the 'vertical bar', although hackers nickname it the 'pipe'. Confusingly, it is often printed on the keyboard (and sometimes even on screen) as a broken pipe, sort of like it's been bred with a colon. As far as typing is concerned, | is often the shifted character on the backslash key (ie hold shift and hit backslash); the backslash key is at the bottom left of a standard 105-key keyboard, but may be on the middle right of a Mac keyboard. For more about the history of this character, consult . Let's have an example: | Author mb | Main genre | Most famous novel | ArthurCClarke | HardSF (well, hard_ish_) | 2001: a space odyssey | PeterFHamilton | SpaceOpera | The reality dysfunction | KenMcLeod | Political CyberPunk/HardSF | The star fraction | LarryNiven | Imperialist SpaceOpera | Ringworld | GregEgan | HardSF | Axiomatic (short stories) Note that although you don't need trailing |s, you can have them if you like: | Genre | Judgement | | SF | Good | | Fantasy | Good | | Mainstream | Bad | | Western | Ugly | Note that you also don't need so much whitespace: |Genre|Time |SpaceOpera|Future |CyberPunk|Near future |Fantasy|Present or N/A |HardSF|Any In addition, since row boundaries are determined by the presence of a | right at the start of a line, it is possible to spread rows over several lines by judicious use of spaces, like so: | Film | Heroes | Villains | BladeRunner | Rick Deckard, JF Sebastian, Dr Tyrell, Rachael Tyrell | Roy Baty, Leon, Pris, Zhora | TheMatrix | Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, Switch, Tank | Cipher, various agents | DieAnotherDay | James Bond, Jinx | Miss Frost, Gustav Graves You may wonder what very small tables look like. They look like this: | | One cell only | One | Row | Only | One | Column | Only Originally, the HTML that TwicI generated uses minimalistic markup for tables; this have a fairly elegant look, but it could be a little hard on the eye. Thus, a simple border was added. This change is under review. CategoryWiki