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Editing pages
Activate editing mode

Formatting
Keeping it tidy

Wikilinks
Connect pages to each other

Saving your changes
Publishing

Creating new articles
Building a page from scratch

Summary
Review of what you've learned


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Summary

  • Wikimarkup is a simple source code language for Wikipedia
  • You can view and edit the source code of almost any page on Wikipedia by clicking "Edit source"
  • The Help:Edit_toolbar at the top of the page can do some formatting for you
  • Formatting ==Headings== by placing text between = signs
  • Make text '''bold''' or ''italic'' by placing it between ' apostrophes
  • [[Links]] within Wikipedia are added using [[]] square brackets
  • Don't forget to summarise the edits you made when you save!


More detailed information


Full manual
VisualEditor editing




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