Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia

To learn how to keep track of your (or other people's) edits, see Keeping track of changes.
For lists of stub types, categories, infoboxes etc., see Resources and lists.
For image use, 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 editing.

Introduction to the project.

Tutorial

Cheatsheet - an editing reference card.

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

Glossary - understand Wikipedia jargon.

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.

Wikipedia:Using JAWS- (the screen reader JAWS)

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

Use redirect pages

Create infoboxes

Create templates - (Quick guide, 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 or move its position, or insert constants and timestamps.

Saving - how to:

Report your change in the edit summary

Handle an edit conflict

Use minor edits

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 Wikipedia 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

Style

List of style guidelines

Layout How to structure Wikipedia articles.

Naming conventions

Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)

Captions

Image use

When to use tables

Use proper names

Creating an article series

Using Summary style on the overview page

Manual of Style

The Manual of Style is a comprehensive style guide for Wikipedia articles. See a full list of the submanuals on the right, or a concise list below.

Main Manual of Style

Abbreviations

Biographies

Dates & numbers

Disambiguation

Headings

Links

Mathematics

Pronunciation

Titles

Trademarks

Sister projects

Life cycle of an article

Article development - lists the stages in an article's development and offers ways to help improve articles.

Perfect articles - a checklist of components required to make a "perfect" article.

Start a new page

Write your first article

Guide to writing better articles

The Wikipedia 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

Using Diff pages

Edit conflicts