Help:Editing

Please Note!

All of the links on this page are external ones. Also, while they refer to Wikipedia for the most part, most of the information is useful for editing on the SuccuWiki, which uses the MediaWiki software like Wikipedia.

You will need to return to SuccuWiki in order to use what you have learned!

To learn how to keep track of your (or other people's) edits, see Keeping track of changes.

For lists of stub types, categories, infoboxes etc., see Resources and lists. For image use, see Images and media. To learn the rules of Wikipedia, see policies and guidelines.

Contributing to Wikipedia a guide on ways to get involved in editing.

Tutorial

Cheatsheet - an editing reference card.

Simplified ruleset - essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).

Glossary - understand 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.

• Wikipedia:Using JAWS- (the screen reader JAWS)
• Edit a page, including markup details.
• Help:Editing - annotated cheatsheet
• Bite sized tips for the most common tasks.
• Create links - (Change the title of a link (piped link))
• Use sections in an article
• Use categories
• Insert a picture
• Use redirect pages
• Create infoboxes
• Create templates - (Quick guide, 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 or 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 preview button

Creating pages - how to:

• Start a new article
• Start a new page - for pages that are not articles
• Name a page
• Naming conventions in general - (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, or move (rename) a page - (Requested moves)
• Delete pages/images/categories
• Categorize
• Stub articles - (List of Stub Styles)
• 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 articles on sister projects
• Use page names
• Use namespaces
• 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

• List of style guidelines
• Layout How to structure Wikipedia articles.
• Naming conventions
• Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
• Captions
• Image use
• When to use tables
• Use proper names
• Creating an article series
• Using Summary style on the overview page

Manual of Style

The Manual of Style is a comprehensive style guide for Wikipedia articles.

• Main Manual of Style
• Abbreviations
• Biographies
• Dates & numbers
• Disambiguation
• Headings
• Links
• Mathematics
• Pronunciation
• Titles
• Trademarks
• Sister projects

Life cycle of an article

• Article development - lists the stages in an article's development and offers ways to help improve articles.
• Perfect articles - a checklist of components required to make a "perfect" article.
• Start a new page
• Write your first article
• Guide to writing better articles

The Wikipedia interface

Find your way around the screen.

• Editing toolbar
• Using Page History
• Using User Contributions pages
• Using Talk pages
• Using the Recent Changes page
• Using the Related Changes page
• Using Diff pages
• Edit conflicts