Help:Contents

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Editing refers to the changing of a page by a Wikipedia user. Unless certain restrictions are in effect, such as Wikipedia:Protection, all pages are editable, by everyone. This is a brief overview of that process. For more detailed information, see the links under Further reading below.

Review policy and conventions

 * Make sure that you submit information which is relevant to the specific purpose of the wiki, or your content might be deleted. You can always use the Help:Talk page to ask questions or check to see if your idea will be accepted. Please make note of the license your contributions will be covered with.

Start editing

 * Click the edit this page tab at the top of the page. This brings you to the edit page: a page with a text box (the edit box) containing the wikitext – the editable code from which the server produces the finished page.
 * Note: if you just want to experiment, please do so only in the Wikipedia sandbox.

Type your changes

 * You can just type your text. However, also using basic wiki markup (described in the next section) to make links and do simple formatting adds to the value of your contribution. Style guidelines adhere to those for Wikipedia, which can be found in the Wikipedia Manual of Style. If you follow these, your contributions will be more valuable as they will not need to be cleaned up later.

Summarize your changes

 * Write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box. You may use shorthand to describe your changes, as described in the Wikipedia Edit summary legend page.

Preview before saving!

 * When you have finished, click Show preview to see how your changes will look before you make them permanent. Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click Save page and your changes will be immediately applied to the article. Sometimes it is helpful to save in between.

Most frequent wiki markup explained
Here are the most frequently used types of wiki markup. If you need more help see Wikitext examples.

{| class="wikitable" ! style="width: 50%" | What it looks like ! style="width: 50%" | What you type You can italicize text by putting 2 apostrophes on each side.

3 apostrophes will embolden the text.

5 apostrophes will embolden and italicize the text.

(4 apostrophes don't do anything special -- there's just 'one left over'.) You can italicize text by putting 2 apostrophes on each side.

3 apostrophes will embolden the text.

5 apostrophes will embolden and italicize the text.

(4 apostrophes don't do anything special -- there's just 'one left over'.) You should "sign" your comments on talk pages:
 * Three tildes give your user name: Example

You should "sign" your comments on talk pages: name: name plus date/time: ~ date/time alone: Section headings
 * Four tildes give your user name plus date/time: Example 07:46, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Five tildes give the date/time alone: 07:46, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Three tildes give your user
 * Four tildes give your user
 * Five tildes give the

Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them.

Subsection Using more equals signs creates a subsection.

A smaller subsection

Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs.

Start with 2 equals signs not 1 because 1 creates H1 tags which should be reserved for page title.

Section headings
Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them.

Subsection
Using more equals signs creates a subsection.

A smaller subsection
Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs.

Start with 2 equals signs not 1 because 1 creates H1 tags which should be reserved for page title. Also notice spaces between the modifier and text do not matter. marks the end of the list. marks the end of the list. A new line marks the end of the list.
 * - id="lists"
 * Unordered lists are easy to do:
 * Start every line with a star.
 * More stars indicate a deeper level.
 * Previous item continues.
 * A new line
 * in a list
 * in a list
 * Of course you can start again.
 * Unordered lists are easy to do:
 * Start every line with a star.
 * More stars indicate a deeper level.
 * Previous item continues.
 * A new line
 * in a list
 * in a list
 * Of course you can start again.
 * 1) Numbered lists are:
 * 2) Very organized
 * 3) Easy to follow
 * Previous item continues
 * 1) Easy to follow
 * Previous item continues
 * 1) New numbering starts with 1.

A new line marks the end of the list.
 * 1) Numbered lists are:
 * 2) Very organized
 * 3) Easy to follow
 * Previous item continues
 * Previous item continues
 * 1) New numbering starts with 1.
 * A colon indents a line or paragraph.
 * A colon indents a line or paragraph.
 * A colon indents a line or paragraph.

A newline starts a new paragraph. Often used for discussion on talk pages.
 * We use 1 colon to indent once.
 * We use 2 colons to indent twice.
 * 3 colons to indent 3 times, and so on.


 * A colon indents a line or paragraph.
 * A colon indents a line or paragraph.

A newline starts a new paragraph. Often used for discussion on talk pages.
 * We use 1 colon to indent once.
 * We use 2 colons to indent twice.
 * 3 colons to indent 3 times, and so on.

Here's a link to the Main_Page.

But be careful - capitalization counts! Here's a link to the Main_Page. Intentionally permanent red link is a page that doesn't exist yet. You could create it by clicking on the link. Intentionally permanent red link is a page that doesn't exist yet. You could create it by clicking on the link. You can link to a page section by placing a "#" before its title:


 * Help:Contents.

If sections have the same title, add a number to link to any but the first. goes to the third section named "Example section".

You can link to a page section by placing a "#" before its title:


 * Help:Contents.

If sections have the same title, add a number to link to any but the first. goes to the third section named "Example section".
 * }

Scientific references in ITHANET Wiki
ITHANET Wiki uses a combination of the Cite extension with the Pubmed extension to produce in-text citations and an automatically numbered list of PubMed references. All that is needed to cite a scientific article is its eight-digit PubMed ID number. If bracketed as follows, it will then automatically be numerically indexed in superscript.

This also works for multiple articles, which are thus referenced by a single index number.

To then display the fully formatted list of references, add the standard reference section described for the Cite extension, as follows. ==References==

For an example of scientific citation in ITHANET Wiki, have a look at e.g. the entry Memory lymphocyte.

Restrictions
Some pages cannot be edited by everyone. A special function known as protection can be applied to a page by administrators, making the said page uneditable to certain classes of users. There are several degrees of protection: There are various reasons why a page might be protected. Vandalism and spam can lead to semiprotection, while content wars and other severe cases can lead to full protection. There are other times where Office actions come into play. For the most part, protection is temporary and editing privileges are then restored. In any case, everyone can view the source of any page, irrespective of its level of protection.
 * If a page is semiprotected, it can be edited by everyone except IPs and accounts that have not yet been autoconfirmed.
 * If a page is fully protected, only other admins can make edits to the page.
 * A page can also be protected so that it cannot be moved.
 * In some cases, an admin might see fit to protect a page from being created.
 * For very rare pages, such as the Main Page, "cascading" protection is applied, wherein every page that is transcluded onto a page is protected, too.

Editing help

 * Help:Editing FAQ
 * Help:Editing toolbar
 * Help:Minor edit

Wiki markups and codes

 * Help:Wikitext examples
 * card|Help:Reference_card Help:Reference card: a one-page summary of important commands, to be printed out and used next to the computer
 * HTML in wikitext
 * Help:Comment tags
 * HTML elements: HTML Elements in general
 * Help:Redirect: setting up a redirect page within Wikipedia

Page management

 * Help:Starting a new page
 * |Protecting pages Protecting pages
 * |Merging and moving pages
 * Anti-spam features

Uselful links

 * For a handy list of basic editing functions, see the editing cheatsheet.
 * For more masterful editing see Help:Advanced editing