User:Deborahjay/Wikipedia editing 101

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Contents 1 Intro to editing (links from FrankB's welcome and New Contributors' Help) 2 Help sites 3 Useful actions 4 Language and Translation matters 5 Syntax cache

[edit] Intro to editing (links from FrankB's welcome and New Contributors' Help)

• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Editing tutorial
• Picture tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Naming conventions
• Manual of Style
• Guide to layout (incl. headers and their contents)
• Index of links for editing
• a compendium of editing links provided by User:Tyrenius

[edit] Help sites

• New Contributors' Help Page
• Help desk

[edit] Useful actions

• Move and Requested moves
• Reverting
• Template messages

[edit] Language and Translation matters

• WikiProject Echo for translating articles into other languages
• American and British English differences
• List of British words not widely used in the United States
• List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom
• List of words having different meanings in British and American English
• List of British idioms

[edit] Syntax cache

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