Help:Editing
This Editing Overview has a lot of wikitext examples. You may want to keep this page open in a separate browser window for reference while you edit. Each of the topics covered here is covered somewhere else in more detail. Please look in the box on the right for the topic you are interested in.
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Editing basics
- Start editing
- To start editing a MediaWiki page, click on the "Edit this page" (or just "edit") link at one of its edges. This will bring you to the edit page: a page with a text box containing the wikitext: the editable source code from which the server produces the webpage. If you just want to experiment, please do so in the sandbox, not here.
- Summarize your changes
- You should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box. You may use shorthand to describe your changes, as described in the legend.
- Preview before saving
- When you have finished, press preview to see how your changes will look -- before you make them permanent. Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click "Save" and your changes will be immediately applied to the article.
Help:Wikitext quick reference Help:Editing tips and tricks
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Minor edits
A logged-in user can mark an edit as "minor". Minor edits are generally spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearrangement of text. Users may choose to hide minor edits when viewing Recent Changes.
Marking a significant change as a minor edit is considered bad Wikiquette. If you have accidentally marked an edit as minor, make a dummy edit, verify that the "[ ] This is a minor edit" check-box is unchecked, and explain in the edit summary that the previous edit was not minor.
See also
- Help:Editing FAQ
- Help:Automatic conversion of wikitext
- Help:Calculation
- Help:Editing toolbar
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- Protecting pages
- Help:Reference card - a one-page summary of important commands, to be printed out and used next to the computer
- Help:Starting a new page
- Help:Variable
- UseModWiki and Wikipedia:PHP script.
- HTML elements.
- Live preview - a way to preview your edits without contacting the server.
- Template:Tim - font size
- Template:Tim - color
- en:Template:hidden begin (backlinks, edit) - showing and hiding text using Javascript
External links
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- Reading
- Go|Search|Stop words|URL|Namespace|Page name|Section
- Backlinks|Link|Piped link|Interwiki link|Redirect|Category|Image page
- Logging in and preferences
- Logging in|Preferences|User style|Special page
- Keeping track of changes
- Recent changes (enhanced)|Related changes|Watching pages|Page history
- Diff|Edit summary|Minor edit|User contributions
- Editing
- Filling the page|Starting a new page|List|Table|Special characters
- Template|Magic words|Renaming (moving) a page|Editing shortcuts
- Talk page|Testing
- Advanced
- Advanced templates|Array|Parameter default|Variable|Substitution
- Displaying a formula|EasyTimeline|Inputbox|Uploading files|Calculation
- Lists of resources
- Categories|Stub types|Infoboxes|Templates|Shortcuts
This page is a copy of the master help page at Meta (for general help information), with Wikipedia-specific templates inserted. To update the general help, edit the master help page for all projects at m:Help:Editing. For Wikipedia-specific help, there are two templates - the main template, Template:Ph:Editing, is the extra text at the bottom of this page, before the links to other help pages. Template:Phh:Editing appears at the top of this help page and is useful for Wikipedia-specific lead text. You are welcome to copy the exact wikitext from the master page at Meta and paste it into this page at any time.
Copies of this page on other projects, for other languages see Meta
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