Thread:MistofMists/@comment-39655518-20190602142351/@comment-31797469-20190603144055

Personally, I do all writing wikimedia mark-up, in the Source Editor. It's a bit technical but I learned it from watching the source of existing pages, and copying code from them. Nowadays I also try to use Templates as a shorthand, i.e. use

Which creates an image and text that links to the page Oaktopus, using the image File:Oaktopus.png.

really it's shorthand for: Oaktopus