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Go to the Save an edit exercise and copy it to a sandbox; do this for every exercise. Note the editing tool bar that helps insert various wiki markup functions such as bold, images, signature, etc. Their actual use will be referred to during the workshop. Go to and do the Apply bold and italics exercise. Go to and do the Create section headers ...
Advanced editing exercises by Tony1; Copy-editing essentials, courtesy of the Military History Academy; General advice on how to improve your prose from Tony1; Exercises in paragraphing and sentence structure from Tony1; Military History WikiProject A-class and FAC checklist; The best professional-level copy editing guide is the Chicago Manual ...
Editing exercises for Visual Editor. Content: A series of exercises (Visual Editor) for practising basic Wikipedia edits, including formatting, linking, citing, and adding an infobox. Usage: DIY learning, teaching, and/or Edit-A-Thons. You may also remix the exercises in your sandbox to suit your instruction needs.
Below are exercises which workshop participants may copy to a sandbox and edit. Use Wikipedia:Sandbox or create one as a subpage of your user page. (Workshop participants and Workshop project editors, please discuss the exercises, or suggest new or replacement exercises on this project page's talk page.)
To enter editing view, click Edit or Edit source to the left of the search box (top-right corner of your screen). If you find yourself in: visual editor ("what you see is what you get"): You are where you need to be. source editor (where content shows in monospaced font): Switch into visual editor. Click the pencil icon in the top right corner ...
Inconsistency in naming and formatting within an article makes the text more difficult to understand. Sifting through an article, using your memory of what has come before to pick up glitches, is a good exercise for editors who are relatively inexperienced at copy-editing. Here are a few examples of common inconsistencies in the same article:
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Inconsistency in naming and formatting throughout an article makes the text subtly more difficult to read. Sifting through an article, using your memory of what has come before to pick up glitches, is a good exercise for editors who are relatively inexperienced at copy-editing.