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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.

Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts

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

Wikipedia:Summary style

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

Wikipedia:Collaborations

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

Wikipedia:Timeline