Help:Greybox

Here is how to create a grey box around a particular selection of text: Place two {{ at the start of the box, followed (with no space) by the word greybox followed (with no space) by a | followed (with no space) by the word text, followed (with no space) by = (an equals sign), followed (with no space) by the start of the text. At the very end of the text that you wish to be included in the box place two }}.

Users are encouraged to participate in creating the site, following the site’s Contributors’ Guidelines. So help OutHistory.org make history.}}

Here is an example: {{greybox|text=As an experiment in history by the the people, some of the content of OutHistory.org is user-generated by anyone with data or documents and source citations to share. Content is also solicited from or volunteered by independent scholars, institutionally-based researchers, archivists, collectors, and the public.

This is how the example will appear on your screen:

As an experiment in history by the the people, some of the content of OutHistory.org is user-generated by anyone with data or documents and source citations to share. Content is also solicited from or volunteered by independent scholars, institutionally-based researchers, archivists, collectors, and the public.

Users are encouraged to participate in creating the site, following the site’s Contributors’ Guidelines. So help OutHistory.org make history.

And here is the same example with the tags shown:

<wiki>

</nowiki>