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Edit a section of an article, not the entire article (editing of sections is discussed in the 'Editing article sections' section). Click the "history" tab to see if an article is getting a lot of edits; if so, do a series of small (quick) edits rather than trying to do a lot of changes within a single edit.
Editing most Wikipedia pages is simple. Wikipedia uses two interface methods: classic editing with the Source Editor through wikitext (wiki markup), and a new VisualEditor (VE). Wikitext editing using the Source Editor is chosen by clicking the Edit source tab at the top of a Wikipedia page (or on a section-edit link). This opens an editable ...
In addition, you can add filename extension for wiki file type in Preferences dialog, in case your editor uses file type specific configuration. Once the above is done, you can edit any text area in your editor by clicking at the Edit button at the lower-right corner of the text area. Alternately, you can right-click on the text area.
The default file format of these word processors often resembles a markup language, with the basic format being plain text and visual formatting achieved using non-printing control characters or escape sequences. Later word processors like Microsoft Word store their files in a binary format and are almost never used to edit plain text files. [15]
Simply write the section heading as a short paragraph and apply appropriate formatting. When editing in the visual mode, write the section name and use the "Paragraph" button in the toolbar to select the heading or sub-heading style you want to apply to it. When editing in "Edit source" mode, place = signs around the heading's text, for example:
By default, there is no link to edit the lead section of a page, so the entire page must be edited. Lead section editing can be enabled through Preferences → Gadgets → Appearance → Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page. You can also click "[edit]" at another section and manually change section=n in the url to section=0.
While the "View and edit watchlist" screen makes you click a checkbox for each page you want to remove, the "Edit raw watchlist" screen lets you select and delete wide swaths of the list as if you were editing a text document. As mentioned in the previous warning, you may want to save (in another place) any pages that you remove from your list.
Large changes in a single edit are difficult to read, and may be reverted by other editors on mere suspicion. Adding an entire section at once is usually acceptable, since it is self-contained. Making multiple changes in a single edit, particularly when edits stretch across different sections, should be avoided.