Help:Editor

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Editor's Handbook

Editing overview

Starting a new page

1. Page name

Images and other uploaded files

1. Image description page

Special characters

1. Turkish characters
2. Romanian characters
3. WikiHiero syntax — warning: lots of images! (for Egyptian hieroglyphs)

Formatting

1. Formula
2. Table
3. EasyTimeline syntax

Referencing

1. Link
2. Piped link
3. Interwiki linking
4. Variable
5. URL

Organizing

1. Sections
2. Templates
3. Category
4. Redirect
5. Renaming (moving) a page
6. Namespace

Saving effort (not having to write something, or copy and paste)

1. Automatic conversion of wikitext
2. Editing toolbar

HTML in wikitext

Fixing mistakes and vandalism

1. Reverting a page to an earlier version

Communicating

1. Edit summary
2. Talk page
3. Edit conflict
4. Minor edit

Testing