Reference 1: http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/TextFormattingRules
Reference 2: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

Copying and Pasting from old to new

• Goto an existing old MinGWiki page
• execute the login function
• click the edit button
• click the mouse into the edit box
• press the Ctrl-A keyboard action to select all text in the input form
• Now Create content and choose New MinGWiki.
• If not already provided, enter the title from the old MinGWiki page

These pages are freely editable and are a community effort to display and give direction. We are currently in the process of moving the data from the previous wiki, so you may wish to check there as well. Feel free to join in the effort.