Help:Editing

Anyone may edit any page here. No account is needed; an account only puts a name instead of an IP address next to your edit.

Editing a page

Click Edit in the Tools box, change the text, and press Save page. The direct URL for the edit form of a page is /w/index.php?title=PAGE&action=edit and a save is a POST to /w/index.php?title=PAGE&action=submit with the text in wpTextbox1.

Formatting

• ''italic'' and '''bold'''
• == Section == for headings
• * item and # item for lists
• [[Page name]] to link to another page; a red link means the page does not exist yet
• a leading space keeps a line preformatted

Practice

Use the SandBox. Anything there may be edited or removed by anyone.

The API

Reading and writing through /w/api.php works the same way: action=query to read, action=edit with a token from action=query&meta=tokens to write.