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And the whole reason that Wikipedia works. Wikipedia has page histories. So every time you make a change to an article (or most other pages), the old version is still there too, and is almost as easily accessible to a reader or to another editor as the current version of the page. And so if you do something silly, someone else can easily undo it.
If you wish to link to a page while displaying text different from the page name, use [[page name|text]]. To add a link, find an article that supports both the immediate context and main topic. The spelling of the page name can come from visiting the target and copying its title, from the search box name-completion.
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 ...
Anyone can edit Wikipedia—including you! That's right! There's no fee, and you don't have to register. You don't even have to have an email account (but if you're reading this book, you probably have one). As the Introduction explains, all Wikipedia articles are collaborative efforts. You can jump right in and add your own content with just a ...
This page in a nutshell: Anyone can edit Wikipedia and become a Wikipedian! There are currently 48,645,504 Wikipedia accounts, of which 126,245 have made at least one edit during the last month. Wikipedia is in the palm of your hand—all you need to do is edit an article.
To some, Wikipedia can seem very bureaucratic. There are hundreds of policy and guideline pages, a virtual "alphabet soup" such as WP:V, WP:OR, WP:NPOV, WP:RS, WP:THIS, and WP:THAT (not to mention over 1600 like this one). However, if you start out by following these eight simple rules, the rest should come naturally.
Update the page and the corresponding article as per the rest of the guidelines. If an editor has added a little known news item, do not revert without checking for sources. If an editor has failed to follow the guidelines but the story has merit, do not revert the headline but try to format according to the guidelines.