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This page serves as a guide on how to create Wikipedia pages. (A Wikipedian is a human who helps improve Wikipedia.)

Note: Wikipedia does not use Markdown. Instead, Wikimedia's MediaWiki format is used, so when editing this Guide, no talking about Markdown.

Practicing editing

Practice in your personal sandbox. It is a great way to practice editing without breaking all of Wikimedia and blowing up the world!

Alternatively, you can also create pages on the Test Wikipedia. The Test Wikipedia runs a work in progress MediaWiki, so please do report any issues you run into!

Start an article

To start an article:

  • Open the Article Wizard.
  • Click a red link in Wikipedia.
  • Open a invalid link that looks like a normal Wikipedia article URL.

Format text (WIP)

Use astrophes to make text bold, italic or bolditalic. An example can be found in TylerMagee's sandbox. Use asterisks to make bullet lists.

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