Wikipedia:Training/For language students/Getting started 2

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Getting started: Basic tasks

Some of the typical editing and formatting tasks you can try out to begin with are:

Bolding and italicizing text
Creating headers
Editing subsections
Creating bulleted and numbered lists
Creating links
Creating references
Starting a sandbox page

You should also familiarize yourself with:

The distinctions among article pages, talk pages and user pages
The use of talk pages