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Edit the page by clicking the "Edit" or "Edit source" tab near the top of it or one of the section [edit source] links. Step three Make your changes and fill out an edit summary. Be helpful to the editors who follow you by giving a summary of what you have done. Simple "Copy edit" is fine, but "Edited for tone" is even better.
Example of non-professional copy editing in progress [1]. Copy editing (also known as copyediting and manuscript editing) is the process of revising written material ("copy") to improve quality and readability, as well as ensuring that a text is free of errors in grammar, style, and accuracy.
Copy editing is the process of making improvements to an article—correcting spelling and improving grammar, sentence structure, style and flow to make it clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent; and make it say what it means and mean what it says. In Wikipedia, we follow the guidelines in the Manual of Style (MoS). [1]
When editing film articles, please refer to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Film (MOS:FILM); when editing military history articles, please refer to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Military history (MILMOS). There is additional information in these guides specific to the article being edited which is not covered in the main MOS.
The Guild maintains a Copy Edit Requests Page, where editors can request copy edits on articles they are working to develop and improve, or want to nominate for Good Article, A-class or Featured Article status. We try to complete requests quickly, but waiting times are variable. We do not guarantee that articles we copy edit will be accepted at ...
PyAutoWikiBrowser (PyAWB) is an editing assist tool for MediaWiki similar to AWB, but since it is written in Python, it is intended to be cross-platform. Currently it is under development, but it is available for testing as a command line tool. While in beta please restrict editing to your own userspace, or preferably, sign up at Test Wiki and ...
A "manual" way of editing in an external GUI text editor is to use copy and paste.Some text editors do not support, or may not be set up to support, various special characters—Chinese characters, non-Latin letters, mathematical symbols, and so on—they are typically replaced with a character that renders as a square.
Google Docs is an online word processor and part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google.Google Docs is accessible via a web browser as a web-based application and is also available as a mobile app on Android and iOS and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS.