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The purpose of this page is to help users of Wikipedia solve problems they may encounter when browsing or editing. Note: If you're trying to get help for a specific technical problem that isn't answered by the FAQs, try asking at Wikipedia:Troubleshooting or at the Village pump.
The macOS universal spell checker is available in Wikipedia's "edit this page" mode while using Safari and in theory any other Cocoa-based browser. RegExTypoFix is a large set of regular expressions meant to be loaded into AutoWikiBrowser to do automatic spellchecking. Google Chrome contains a built-in spell checker as well.
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.
If you have never edited Wikipedia before and/or do not have an account, you may need to create one. This will normally allow you to edit despite the block on your IP address. If you are currently blocked from creating an account, and cannot create one elsewhere in the foreseeable future, consider requesting one at Wikipedia:Request an account.
You can also edit a template that is already on the page. When you click on the template to select it, it turns blue, and a box appears with a "Template" icon (a puzzle piece). Then click on the "Edit" link. Some templates are not visible to someone reading a page. In VisualEditor, such hidden templates are shown as puzzle icons, such as Anchor.
To force a single new line in this mode, press Ctrl-Enter (or Command-Enter on Mac). When editing in "Edit source" mode, pressing the Enter key twice will start a new paragraph. To force a single new line, insert the HTML element <br /> after the line.
If not, click to turn it on, and then click the Okay button. When the Change settings dialog box appears, click Yes. (In Internet Explorer 6, this dialog box is labeled Warning.) Firefox. In Windows, go to Tools→Options; on a Mac, go to Firefox→Preferences; on Linux, go to Edit→Preferences .
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 ...