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Editing Wikipedia – a list of general help pages for editors. Links and references – a list of page to help with creating links or dealing with references. Images and media – a list of pages dealing with using images, videos and sound files. Tracking changes – a list of pages about tracking the evolution of a page or how to follow a user.
Your own contributions page. To access your own user contributions page, click the drop down labelled with a person icon at the top right corner of the page. Then click Contributions. An alternative is to type in the Search box: Special:MyContributions. Another registered user's contributions page.
Wikipedia gives you three ways to add a page to your watchlist. You can turn on a checkbox when you edit or move a page (top and middle), or, at the top of the page you're viewing, you can click the "watch" tab (bottom). When you add a page to your watchlist, you're actually telling Wikipedia to watch two pages for you. That's because in ...
A page history shows the order in which edits were made to any editable Wikipedia page, the difference between any two revisions, and a menu of special external tools. A page history is sometimes called revision history or edit history. You can view a page's history by clicking the "View history" tab at the top of the associated page (pictured ...
When viewing page information, the wiki software can show additional custom text at the start and end of the page. The top of the information page (before the first section for "Basic information") comes from MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header. It is blank by default, but individual wikis can add content here.
Page histories show who did what to a page, when, and often even why. Thousands of Wikipedia editors are warned, every day, for inappropriate editing. Hundreds of user accounts are blocked every day for vandalism, disruptive editing, spamming, and so on. Page histories help identify problematic edits and problem editors. Reverting.
The body of a Wikipedia page is where the content goes. It's a blank page Wikipedia provides for editors to fill in. On regular Wikipedia pages, category links always appear at the very bottom of a page's body. All other types of links, including the table of contents, can show up wherever the editor wants to put them.