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This FAQ answers the most common questions about editing Wikibooks. For full help on editing modules, see the Help page, and these help modules:
- How to edit a page
- How to start a new page or book.
- How to use talk pages, which are used to discuss how to improve modules.
- How to use redirect pages.
- How to revert a page to an earlier version.
- How to delete pages
[edit] How do I edit a page?
- It's quite simple. Simply click "Edit this page" on the bottom or the side of the page, and type away. See How to edit a page to learn about making links, using bold and italics, linking to images, and many other things...
[edit] But I have problems editing with my browser!
- See Browser notes (Wikipedia page)
[edit] How do I make links?
- A link is just the name of the page surrounded by double square brackets. It's also possible to make the link display text that is different from that of the link itself:
- [[page name]]
- [[page name]]s -- suffix text will display as part of the link
- [[page name|display name]] -- the piped link: hide the page name and display something else (but use this sparingly, and never "click here"!)
- [[page name (disambiguation)|]] -- the "pipe trick": the part in parentheses or the namespace will not be displayed.
- You don't need to put underscores ("_"), to act as space separators like you see in links. Spaces will work fine.
- Note: to link to an external webpage, use [http://webpage Multi-word Title]
[edit] How do I rename a page?
- Registered users can move a page; this moves the page content and edit history to a new title, and creates a redirecting page at the old title. This method is better than just copying the content by hand, as it preserves the page's history. Use the "Move this page" link. If you want to move a page, please click the "What links here" and fix the links to the page in question.
[edit] How do I edit a redirect page?
- The easiest way to edit the redirected page is to click on the link you see at the top of the page after being redirected: "redirected from ...". At the very top of that page, you will see a message: "(redirected from page name)", Click on the page name link, and you will edit the redirect page page. See Redirect.
[edit] How do I figure out how big a module is?
- Search results give the size, for example "Knot theory (3220 bytes)". See Wikibooks:Searching
[edit] How do I determine what other users have changed in a module?
- Wikibooks's software MediaWiki can produce a list of all the changes between two versions of a module (either between two consecutive versions, or between an old and the current version), laid out in two-columns side by side with changes highlighted. From the Recent Changes page you can click the "diff" link; from a module page itself click "Page history", then "cur" or "last" to see changes.
[edit] How can I put pictures on a page?
- First, you need the right to publish the picture under the GNU Free Documentation License. This means that either you created the picture and therefore own the copyright, or it is in the public domain. If the picture is located on a server you control, you can refer to that image from your wiki page by simply including its URL, like this:
http://my.webserver.com/image.png and it will be included. (Note it will only be linked, not displayed.) If instead you want to upload a picture to Wikibooks.org, you can use special:upload as a logged-in user and once it is uploaded, you can refer to it in your wiki pages as above, by including its file name :[[image:NameOfImage.png|Alternate Text]].
See also Image use policy.
[edit] How can I delete uploaded items?
- Only Wikibooks:Administrators can delete uploads, but anyone can upload a new item with the same name, thereby replacing the old one.
[edit] How do I describe images?
- Click on the image to get the description page. Also, when you upload the file everything you put in the upload summary is placed into the image's description page. See Image:Introductory Physics fig 4.3.png for an example of what goes onto one of these pages. See also: Wikibooks:Image use policy
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