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To change or remove an existing link, click within the text for that link. A dialog will appear, for editing. (You can also get to the dialog with the Ctrl+K keyboard shortcut.) Click "Edit" to change where the link goes. You can also remove the link altogether by pressing the red chain icon with a line through it.
To continue to edit the wikitext directly, simply click the "Edit source" button instead of "Edit". On section edit links, you can open the wikitext editor selected in your preferences for that section by clicking "edit source" instead of the regular "edit" link. If you would like to remove VisualEditor from the user interface, then you can do so.
You can either edit the source code ("Edit source" tab above) or use VisualEditor ("Edit" tab above). Click the " Publish changes " button when finished. You can click " Show preview " to see a preview of your edits, or " Show changes " to see what you have changed.
After you've enabled VisualEditor, you can edit any page that uses it by clicking on the "Edit" tab at the top of the page. (A long page may take a few seconds to load.) You can also open VisualEditor by clicking on the "edit" link on any section of an article. You can also toggle between using VisualEditor and Source Editor whilst editing most ...
A note about editing on mobile devices: Most Wikipedians prefer to edit from a computer, as the editing interface works better there. You can edit from a mobile device and tablet, though. See this page for more information. Wikipedia is formatted using its own language called wiki markup, also called wikitext. It's pretty easy to learn the basics.
Editing Wikipedia articles using a full-fledged text editor is often more convenient than a web browser's standard text area. Text editors provide facilities that are very useful for writing and editing articles (especially long articles), such as spell checking, search and replace, macros, syntax highlighting, and alphabetic sorting.
To allow the user to continue to edit pages normally while blocking other actions: Uncheck the Editing checkbox. Check the other actions to block where appropriate. To prevent the user from editing specific pages or within a namespace: Select the Partial radio button below the Editing checkbox. Enter the specific pages in the Pages box.