Help:Contents/Editing: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 19:45, 10 May 2008

Editing FembotWiki

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.

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

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

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 - (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, 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 FembotWiki articles in different languages

Link words in articles to articles on 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

The FembotWiki 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

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-''To learn how to keep track of your (or other people's) edits, see [[Help:Contents/Tracking changes|Keeping track of changes]].''<br/>
-''For lists of [[FembotWiki:Stub|stub]] types, [[FembotWiki:Category|categories]], infoboxes etc., see [[Help:Contents/Resources and lists|Resources and lists]].''<br/>
-''For image use, see [[Help:Contents/Images and media|Images and media]].''<br/>
-''To learn the rules of FembotWiki, see [[Help:Contents/Policies and guidelines|policies and guidelines]].''
 ===Editing - how to:===
-Experiment with editing pages in the [[FembotWiki:Sandbox|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 [[Help:Reverting|Revert]] your changes.
+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 [[Help:Reverting|Revert]] your changes.
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