Help:Contents/Editing WikiQueer

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Editing WikiQueer To learn how to keep track of your edits (or other people's), see keeping track of changes.

For lists of stub types, categories and infoboxes, etc., see resources and lists.

To use an image, see images and media.

To learn the rules of WikiQueer, see policies and guidelines.


 * Introduction to the project.
 * Contributing to WikiQueer — For a guide on ways to get involved on WikiQueer.
 * Tutorial — For a tutorial on how to edit WikiQueer.
 * Cheatsheet — An editing reference card. Basic wiki markup.
 * Simplified ruleset — Essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).

Basic editing
Experiment with editing in the WikiQueer sandbox. Or, just edit any article: Click the "Edit" link at its top, make your corrections or additions, then use the Show preview button at the bottom. If you save the page and you don't like what you've done, then revert and start over.


 * How to edit a page
 * Editing sections
 * Creating links
 * Advanced wiki markup
 * Making categories
 * Editing tips – For the most common tasks
 * Use easy timeline syntax
 * Valid HTML codes in wikitext
 * "Magic words" and variables – These allow you to change default behaviour or automate text. For example, you can disable a table of contents, move its position or insert constants and timestamps

Saving your edits

 * "Show preview" – Always use this to avoid errors.
 * Edit summary – To explain your edits.
 * Minor edits – Check this for typos and small corrections.
 * Edit conflict – What to do when another editor changes the page while you're editing it.

Article objects

 * Lists
 * Tables
 * Redirects
 * Infoboxes
 * Using templates
 * List of templates
 * Creating templates
 * Pictures and videos
 * Mathematical formulas
 * Footnotes and references

New pages

 * Article Wizard — A guide for starting a new article
 * Name a page
 * Naming conventions in general (full list of specific naming conventions)
 * Disambiguation, create pages for topics with several different definitions
 * Starting a new page — For creating pages other than articles
 * Create subpages

How to write an article

 * Your first article

Article standards

 * Be bold!
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Citing sources
 * Copyrights
 * Editing
 * External links
 * Image use
 * Using redirects
 * Include only verifiable information
 * Deletion
 * Manual of Style
 * Neutral point of view
 * What WikiQueer is not

Article maintenance

 * Use talk pages (discussion pages)
 * Archive a talk page
 * Tagging pages for problems
 * Merge two or more pages
 * Move or rename a page
 * Requested moves
 * Delete pages/images/categories
 * Stub articles
 * List of stub types
 * Revert a page to an earlier version
 * Dealing with vandalism
 * Protect and unprotect pages (Administrators only)
 * Link together WikiQueer articles in different languages
 * Link words in articles to Wikimedia sister projects
 * Use page names
 * Use namespaces
 * Use headings as anchors to link to
 * Translate articles
 * Do a purge
 * Editing with a text editor
 * Test edits and other things
 * Editing shortcuts

Style
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