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Editing Wikipedia

To learn how to keep track of your edits (or other people's), see keeping track of changes.
For lists of stub types, categories and infoboxes, etc., see resources and lists.
To use an image, see images and media.
To learn the rules of Wikipedia, see policies and guidelines.


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Contributing to Wikipedia - a guide on ways to get involved in editing.
Introduction to the project.
Tutorial - a tutorial on how to edit Wikipedia
Cheatsheet - an editing reference card.
Simplified ruleset - essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).
Glossary - defining Wikipedia jargon.

Editing - how to:

Experiment with editing pages in the sandbox. You can also carry out editing experiments "in situ" by editing the page itself and using the Show preview button. Be careful not to accidentally save the page though! If you do, then revert your changes. Template:Style

Edit a page, including markup details.
Help:Editing - annotated cheatsheet
Bite sized tips for the most common tasks.
Create links and change the title of a link (pipe a link)
Use sections in an article
Use categories
Insert a picture
Use redirect pages
Create infoboxes
Create templates, using a quick guide and a list of available templates
Create lists
Use footnotes and references
Use tables
Use mathematical formulae
Use special characters. The display of fonts and other character sets in your browser.
Use easy timeline syntax
Valid HTML codes in wikitext
Use "magic words" and variables. These allow you to change default behaviour or automate text. For example, you can disable a Table of Contents, move its position or insert constants and timestamps.

Saving - how to:

Report your change in the edit summary
Handle an edit conflict
Use minor edits
Use the "Show preview" button

Creating pages - how to:

Write your first article
Start a new page - for pages that are not articles
Name a page
Naming conventions in general - (full list of specific naming conventions)
Disambiguation, create pages for topics with several different definitions
Create subpages

Article maintenance - how to:

Merge two or more pages and move (rename) a page - (Requested moves)
Delete pages/images/categories
Categorize
Stub articles - (List of stub types)
Use talk pages (discussion pages)
Archive a talk page
Revert a page to an earlier version
Deal with vandalism
Protect and unprotect pages (Administrators only)
Link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
Link words in articles to Wikimedia sister projects
Use page names
Use namespaces
Use headings as anchors to link to
Translate articles
Archive Current Events
Do a purge
Edit with a text editor
Test edits and other things
Editing shortcuts

Style

Wikipedia style guidelines
Guide to layout
Captions
Disambiguation pages
Image use policy
Naming conventions
Using proper names
Creating an article series
Summary style techniques
When to use tables

Manual of Style

The Manual of Style is a comprehensive style guide for Wikipedia articles. See a full list of the submanuals on the right, or a concise list below.

Main Manual of Style
Abbreviations
Biographies
Dates and numbers
Disambiguation pages
Headings
Links
Mathematics
Pronunciation
Titles
Trademarks
Wikimedia sister projects

Life cycle of an article

Article development - lists the stages in the life of an article
Your first article
Starting a new page - for creating pages other than articles
Guide to writing better articles
The perfect article - a checklist of components required to make the perfect article.

The Wikipedia interface

Find your way around the screen:

Edit toolbar
Page history
User contributions pages
Talk pages
Recent changes page
Related changes page
Diff pages
Edit conflicts