Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia

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 Wikipedia, see policies and guidelines.

Contributing to Wikipedia - a guide on ways to get involved in Wikipedia.

Introduction to the project.

Tutorial - a tutorial on how to edit Wikipedia

Cheatsheet - an editing reference card.

Simplified ruleset - essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).

Glossary - defining Wikipedia 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.

How to edit a page

Extended wiki 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

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 Wikipedia 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

Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia interface

Find your way around.

Edit toolbar

Page history

User contributions pages

Talk pages

Recent changes page

Related changes page

Diff pages

Edit conflicts

The watchlist

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 Wikipedia 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