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Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
Wikipedia:User page design center/Style
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
Wikipedia:No original research
wp:eiw - all edit pages
- Part 1: Editing, creating, and maintaining articles, covers the basics. These chapters explain the right way to edit, why you want to be a registered editor, how to become one, and everything you need to know about figuring out, tracking, and reversing changes to articles when appropriate. It also discusses all the things to do when creating a new article.
- Part 2: Collaborating with other editors, discusses the rules of engagement, how normal conversations occur, the standard Wikipedia processes for disagreements over content, and dealing with incivility and personal attacks. This section also covers what Wikipedia calls WikiProjects—groups of editors working on articles of common interest, plus the wide range of activities that go into expanding and maintaining a huge encyclopedia: answering questions, tutoring and mentoring, joint reviews of articles, and more.
- Part 3: Formatting and illustrating articles, introduces you to some parts of articles that aren't text or links: the table of contents, lists and tables, and images and other media. Much of this can be confusing when you first encounter it, but each topic has a logic that makes it easy to understand once you've worked with it for a bit. (And you always have this book as a reference!)
- Part 4: Building a stronger encyclopedia, looks at the larger picture. It shows you that an article isn't locked in stone—you can rename it, split it up, merge it with other articles, or even ask for it to be deleted. Naming and merging are ways of getting readers to the information that they want. Another way, covered in this part, is Wikipedia's system of categories, one of several ways to find and navigate between articles.
- Part 5: Customizing Wikipedia, discusses every option that you have to customize Wikipedia to suit yourself, using choices you find when you click My Preferences. You'll also learn how to implement JavaScript user scripts (which you'll see mentioned in the some boxes in this book).
- Part 6: Appendices, provides you with resources to make the most of Wikipedia, as a reader, editor, and member of the Wikipedia community. Appendix A: A tour of the Wikipedia page is an explanation of every link and tab for standard Wikipedia pages (in both reading and editing mode). Appendix B: Reader's guide to Wikipedia, provides some insider tips for those who simply want to read Wikipedia, and want to know what's available besides Wikipedia's search feature and following links in articles. Appendix C: Learning more, provides good starting points to get you as an editor to exactly the reference page you're looking for, lists the places in Wikipedia where you can get personalized help, and shows you where you can find out about Wikipedia as a community.
preview edits (explain any edit)
edit conflict - changing something that has been edited while you are working
copy your work and see if you need it
just edit what needs to be fixed
edit article sections rather than large edits
prepare things before publish changes
template {}
page link []
aliase name [first|second]
edit sections instead of entire article (lead, main,reference)
wordsmithing - neutral point of view (word correciton)
adding information (with sources)
Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating
Category:Wikipedia maintenance
no original research and verifiable Wikipedia:Verifiability Wikipedia:Reliable sources
lead then main
internal links
bibliography at the end with references
can't copyright news
fully site sources, not just URL to prevent dead links. Help:Footnotes
citation needed tags - one source can be used more than once
make an account - not show IP when editing (don't need to worry about IP blocks)
user page, talk page, subpages (red pages have not been made)
deletion template {{ db-userreq }}
lead - 3 sections of the body well footnotesd - references section
it records everything in page histories
use page history to understand what has happened
comparisons of edit
reverting edits (vandalism) undo edits
contributions page
if it is top then your edit is the most recent - hist means there are other edits
watchlist
preferences changes the watchlist
watch edited articles (if you only edit articles you care about)
create a subpage and look at related changes on the left side tab
review editor contributions for other spam/vandalism
talk pages
sign comment
don't use capital letters. use complete words. link pages and URL's
adding a new section
indentation : :: :::
new lines {{ od }}
be specific in your points instead of genereal statements
when quoting others use italics
user behaviour should be discussed on user talk page
archive page - subpages
links with # goes tot he heading
wiki projects/groups Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory
upgrading/maintaining articles
articles need to be assessed by articles
maintain page portals
recruit editors, tag articles for projects, picking featured articles, list of needed articles, collaboration to all work together.
check article talk page
userbox template for projects
put project template like on talk page
announcement page
don't just revert changes - if you disagree have a conversation
correct wording Wikipedia:Controversial articles Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch
Wikipedia:Help desk - where you can go to help
Editors can post the {{ Helpme }} template on their user talk pages, along with a question or request for assistance. That template automatically lists the user talk page at Category:Wikipedians looking for help (shortcut: CAT:HELP). It also sends a notice to the IRC help channel.
good article nominations Wikipedia:Good article nominations Wikipedia:Featured article candidates
lead. body section. bottom (references)
logical subsections
short paragraphs
20,000 words is a large articles that might need to be split Special:LongPages
summary article
see also section / references/ notes/footnotes / further reading / external links
don't have long table of content
you can move the TOC if you want/need
avoid lists when you can use a narrative
lists need to be useful and have a neutral point of view
renaming, redirects, disambiguation pages
all pages have categories (tags) helps for navigation
categories at the end
categories could come from tempaltes not just categories added
Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates
tempalte changes take time to change
Wikipedia:Categorization and subcategories - go low on the categories (use subcategories)
Category:Category needs checking
{{uncategorized}}
category pages - hierachy (only 1 parent category)