User:Ruz2/Tutorials/Starting

You are not ready to start editing for real till you finish the next tutorial. You can practice editing by: a.Using the standard sandbox(the best for practicing edit conflicts). b.Using/creating your own practice page(see later). c.Editing an existing article and only preview; Unless you want a warninig in your user talk page(see later).

Register an account before starting.

Editing
To use the sandbox go to the search box and type WP:SAND. To edit an article type Alt+Shift+e.

Here are a few notes: To go do down a line type br surronded with smaller than and larger than(<, >). To type bold text use three apostraphis, text , three apostraphis('). To type italic text use two apostraphis, text , two apostraphis. To make a section use two equals signs, heading(title) , two equals signs. To make a subsection use three equals signs, heading , three equals signs. Wikilinks are the internal links of wikipedia. to create a wikilink(without spaces) [ [---name of article and text---] ] or [ [---text---|---name of article---] ]

Important!
You may have noticed how all these(except br) have the same structure.

To create your own practice page edit your user page and type(without spaces) [ [ User:--Username--/practice ] ].

Templates are standard text generators. { { fact } } is an example. Use it to note that citation is needed.

Saving & Previewing & Summary
Next step is to type your changes in the edit summary. Finally click the show preview button. Check everything and if it's fine click save page, refresh the edited article and you are done!

Edit conflict
You may have an edit conflict. In that case you have to combine your text with the new text. To avoid the conflict edit quickly by planning what changes you are going to do.

Editing a single section
To avoid an edit conflict when you are editing a single section don't edit the entire article. To do so click the edit button next to a section.

Editing the lead section
What if you want to add a section at the beggining of the page? (if you are in the talk page you can type Alt+Shift+Plus sign(+). But what if you want add text to the begging of the article? The lead section is every thing before the first heading. To edit the lead section you should enable a gadet. To do so click prefrences, click Gadets, and checkbox Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page.

To edit the lead section click the edit button next to article title.