Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia

{| width="100%" style="border: solid 2px #A3B1BF; background: #F5FAFF" | Editing wiki.gis.com 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 wiki.gis.com, see policies and guidelines.


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

Editing
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.
 * Edit a page, including markup details.
 * 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

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

Creating pages

 * 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
 * Starting a new page - for creating pages other than articles
 * Create subpages

Style

 * The Manual of Style is a comprehensive style guide for wiki.gis.com articles.
 * 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
 * wiki.gis.com style guidelines

Life cycle of an article

 * Article development - lists the stages in the life of an article
 * Your first article
 * Guide to writing better articles
 * The perfect article - a checklist of components required to make the perfect article.

The wiki.gis.com interface
Find your way around.
 * Edit toolbar
 * Page history
 * User contributions pages
 * Talk pages
 * Recent changes page
 * Related changes page
 * Diff pages
 * Edit conflicts

Article maintenance

 * 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 wiki.gis.com 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

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