Part II. Editing

Table of Contents

5. Basic Editing

1. Editing a Page

1.1. Understanding the Edit Window

1.1.1. Reading Article Wikitext

1.1.2. Using the Edit Window Tools

1.2. Major vs. Minor Edits

1.3. Handling Major Editing Tasks

1.4. Fixing Mistakes and Other Reasons to Revert

1.5. Who Can Edit What?

2. Syntax

2.1. Fundamentals of Text Markup

2.1.1. Bold and Italic

2.1.2. Indentation, Line, and Paragraph Breaks

2.1.3. Numbered and Bulleted Lists

2.2. Internal and External Links

2.2.1. Internal Links

2.2.2. External Links

2.3. Sections and Headings

2.3.1. Linking into and out of Sections

2.4. Removing Formatting and Hiding Comments

3. Summary

6. Good Writing and Research

1. Starting New Articles

1.1. Deciding What to Write About

1.2. Before Starting a New Article

1.3. Avoiding Treacherous Topics

1.4. Starting the Article

1.4.1. Click a Redlink

1.4.2. Two More Ways to Start an Article

1.4.3. Titles Are Tricky

1.5. Drafting the Article

1.6. Don't Forget

2. Writing Well

2.1. Consulting the Manual of Style

2.2. Introduction and Topic Sentence

2.3. Comprehensiveness and Appropriate Length

2.4. Structure

2.5. Readability

2.6. Audience

2.7. Use of Language

2.8. Graphics

2.9. Applying Basic Content Policies

2.10. Reviews

2.11. Quality and the Good Stub

3. Researching Articles

3.1. Good Wikipedia Research

3.2. Doing Research

3.3. Reliable Sources

3.4. Referencing Styles

3.4.1. Using Footnotes

3.4.2. Referencing Templates

4. Editing Alongside Others

4.1. Changing What Others Write

4.2. Will Your Own Edits Be Kept?

4.3. Edit Summaries

4.4. No Ownership

5. Summary

7. Cleanup, Projects, and Processes

1. Cleanup

1.1. Flagging Articles

1.2. Cleanup Categories

2. Cleanup Tasks

2.1. Rewriting

2.2. Expanding Stubs

2.3. Wikification

2.4. Fact-Checking and Referencing

2.4.1. Help, an Article About Me Is Incorrect!

2.4.2. Copyright Violations

2.5. Vandalism Patrolling

2.6. Cleanup Editing Tools

3. Projects: Working to Improve Content

3.1. WikiProjects

3.2. Wikiportals

3.3. Writing Collaborations

4. Processes

4.1. What Processes Cover

4.2. Deleting Articles

4.2.1. Deletion Processes

4.2.2. Help, My Article's Being Deleted!

4.2.3. A Deletion Case Study

4.3. Featured Articles

5. Summary

8. Make and Mend Wikipedia's Web

1. Redirect and Disambiguate

1.1. Redirects

1.1.1. Creating and Editing Redirects

1.1.2. Limitations on Redirecting

1.2. Disambiguation Pages

1.2.1. Disambiguating Articles About People

1.2.2. Disambiguation Templates

2. Merge, Split, and Move

2.1. Merging Articles

2.1.1. How to Merge Articles

2.2. Splitting Articles

2.3. Moving Pages

2.3.1. Limits on Moving Pages

2.3.2. Undoing a Move

2.3.3. Contentious Title Changes

3. Categorize

3.1. Categorizing Basics

3.2. Categories and Content Policy

3.3. Creating New Categories

3.4. Subcategories

3.5. Categorization Projects

4. Housekeeping

4.1. When a Page Move Is Blocked

4.2. Default Meanings

4.3. Avoiding Disambiguation Pages

4.4. Controlling Category Sorting

4.5. Categories and Templates for Redirects

4.6. Process-Style Resolutions

5. Summary

9. Images, Templates, and Special Characters

1. Images and Media Files

1.1. Finding and Adding Images

1.1.1. Searching for Images to Use

1.1.2. Image Licenses and Fair Use

1.1.3. Uploading Your Own Images

1.2. Using Images

1.3. Using Multimedia Files

2. Templates

2.1. Using Templates

2.2. Using Parameters

2.3. How Templates Work

2.4. Varieties of Templates

2.5. How to Build Templates

3. Laying Out Articles

3.1. Tables

3.2. Formatting Columns

4. Special Syntax

4.1. HTML and CSS

4.2. Mathematical Formulas

4.3. Variables and Magic Words

5. Summary

10. The Life Cycle of an Article

1. Birth of an Article

2. Deletion

3. Maintenance Tagging

4. Editing Improvements

5. Potential Merge

6. Discussion and Content Tags

7. Categories

8. Bots Arrive

9. Incoming Wikilinks

10. Artie Is Moved

11. In Good Times

12. In Bad Times

13. Bad Times, and a True Story

14. Search Engines Find the Article

15. New Relatives

16. Getting the Picture

17. Good Article

18. Summary

19. Conclusion to Part II