Help:Introduction to editing with VisualEditor/6
Opening the editor
How to activate editing mode
Toolbar basics
The tools at your disposal
Links and wikilinks
Connect pages up to each other
Publishing changes
Make it so
Creating new articles
Building a page from scratch
Summary
Review of what you've learned
Summary
- When enabled, VisualEditor is activated by clicking "Edit" at the top of an article
- The toolbar has functions similar to a standard word processing program
- Standard formatting for headings is accessed via the Paragraph
drop-down menu - Links to other Wikipedia pages, and to external web pages, are added using the
button - Remember to summarise the edits you made before you save them!
- Your changes are made to a Wikipedia page when you press Publish changes
- You can create new pages using the Article wizard, so long as the topic is notable, has reliable sources, and isn't a conflict of interest
More detailed information
- Help:Wikilinks
- Help:Edit summary
- Help:Watchlist
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Your first article
