Help:Editing

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This is a Help article.

This page is designed to help members of the KnowledgePit community edit articles on this site. To find articles that need editing, see Category:Articles in need of an editor. See Help:Contents for an overview of all the help pages.

Easy editing of pages is what wikis are made for. It only takes a few clicks.

1 Editing new pages
2 Editing existing pages

Editing new pages

If the page you wish to edit does not exist yet, see Help:Starting a new page. To help find articles that are linked to but do not yet exist, see Special:BadLinkList.

Editing existing pages

Click the edit page tab
Make changes to the text in the edit box. Make sure you write clearly and concisely, and make sure your edit does something to improve the page. If you're making normal changes to the text like fixing spelling mistakes or grammar, inserting new sentences, etc, then you don't have to worry too much about formatting. When you do need to use some type of formatting, you do it using wiki syntax, see Help:Formatting for some of the common types of formatting used.
- If your edit consisted only of simple changes like fixing spelling mistakes or grammar (in other words, anything that doesn't alter the raw content of the page), you should check the "This is a minor edit" box.
Optionally, enter a short note in the Summary box describing your changes.
Optionally preview your changes with the Preview button.
Click the Save page button.
One can rename pages as well - see Help:Moving_a_page

Discussion

Every article has its own discussion page where you can ask questions, make suggestions, or discuss corrections. Click the discussion page tab to reach it. You can sign your message by writing 4 tildes (~~~~). The wiki software turns them into the current time and your username or your current IP address if you are not logged in.

Pages in Need of an Editor

If you're looking for articles to edit, see Category:Articles in need of an editor - templates that mark articles as stubs or in need of clarification automatically add those articles to a subcategory of that category.