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12:13, 30 August 2006 contribs)| (One of the user rights that can be set for a user group is "edit", the right to edit a page. A wiki can grant this right for example to all users who are not blocked (this is the)
03:27, 30 August 2006 User:130.216.168.109 (Corrected link to Edit_summary_legend)
22:29, 25 August 2006 User:71.133.74.137 (oops... i thought i was editing my own wiki. putting it back.)
07:20, 1 August 2006 contribs)|m (What's the point of a hidden message here? It's intended to be editor note. I delete this temporarily. Should you wish to, feel free to add back with a reason)
06:57, 1 August 2006 contribs)|m (fix heading per WP:MOS)
06:47, 1 August 2006 contribs)| (Too condensed to be understandable for newbies. change back)
15:09, 31 July 2006 contribs)| (→Most Frequent Wiki Markup Explained - hidden message)
22:15, 30 July 2006 contribs)| (intro paragraph rewording / condence)
21:58, 30 July 2006 contribs)| (→Most Frequent Wiki Markup Explained - This whole wiki page should fit on 2 printed pages. I condenced a paragraph and the first wikitext example. this may be controvercial)
06:19, 29 July 2006 contribs)|m (removal of one newline, it makes it so the pages print right in firefox)
17:16, 28 July 2006 contribs)|m (delete redirect link)
11:45, 25 July 2006 contribs)| (Unless "going too far", pls discuss before revert! Revert casually is RUDE! (see talk page for details))
17:37, 24 July 2006 User:216.240.27.23 (→Wiki markup -- making the page look the way you want)
09:29, 24 July 2006 contribs)| (→Wiki markup -- making the page look the way you want - link to that cool image that unfortuantely missplaced on this page, but is otherwise really really cool)
09:19, 24 July 2006 contribs)| (Wow, I leave for a bit, and this page turns back into a wikitext reference! rv to patrick with inclusion of "further reading")
23:00, 23 July 2006 contribs)|m (→Editing Basics - fix link)
20:29, 22 July 2006 contribs)| (Shortened introduction; introduced that there are other projects.)
02:00, 19 July 2006 contribs)| (→Basic formatting - Explanation added)
00:56, 19 July 2006 contribs)| (→Most Frequent Wiki Markup Explained - Cheatsheet Image for Newcomers)
21:18, 18 July 2006 contribs)| (→Most Frequent Wiki Markup Explained - I put one subject per cell.)
16:46, 18 July 2006 contribs)| (→Editing Basics - Shortened and made less opinionated; nobody checks talk pages, which usually are too long.)
16:32, 18 July 2006 contribs)|m (→Most Frequent Wiki Markup Explained)
12:42, 18 July 2006 contribs)| (reverted to previous version! Reasons are explained in the discussion page)
23:31, 17 July 2006 User:129.133.89.232 (→Most Frequent Wiki Markup Explained - Fixed orevlap problem from Help:Editing on wikipedia)
18:52, 17 July 2006 contribs)| (Libel by User:Rspeer on history page is wrong; The operator of this site is editing out unaccepted verbosity on the page, and restoring basic cheatsheet. Fully protected pages are discussed on talk)
18:25, 17 July 2006 contribs)| (rv damage by Chuck Morean)
17:14, 17 July 2006 contribs)| (Cheatsheet is supposed to be here.)
21:03, 3 July 2006 contribs)| (rv to last edit by omniplex to annon: please use appropriate wikitext to control formatting, lots of newlines to break a paragraph isn't right, try making your browser be narrower)
07:17, 3 July 2006 User:4.241.18.17 (Trying to get the text readable.)
12:21, 2 July 2006 contribs)| (rv - substing triples the original mess, one compoletely unusable file needing cleanup is better than many)
12:18, 2 July 2006 contribs)|m (→Images, tables, video, and sounds - trim long line)
12:15, 2 July 2006 contribs)| (→Templates - rm bogus example)
11:59, 2 July 2006 contribs)| (can as well subst it)
11:56, 2 July 2006 contribs)| (restore wikitext inclusion while that page has no help footer etc.)
05:58, 2 July 2006 contribs)|m (→Use Wikitext, make your page look good - gone)
05:57, 2 July 2006 contribs)| (whew, got rid of those embeded pages. They didn't belong embeded here, Never seen that feature before.)
03:52, 2 July 2006 contribs)|m (Reverted edits by 125.235.50.113 to last version by 129.105.69.99)
11:25, 4 November 2005 contribs)| (→See also - *:Image:Special characters Verdana IE.png - shows special characters with codes, and also shows problem characters)
13:41, 2 November 2005 contribs)| (Removed the cleanup notice)
00:53, 2 November 2005 contribs)| (rv vandalism to last version by Rspeer)
00:56, 11 September 2005 User:68.84.54.211 (→Just show what I typed)
10:27, 10 September 2005 User:213.107.105.179 (→Internal Links - small bug fix (example code didn't match used code))
19:12, 9 September 2005 contribs)|m (→Spacing things out)
19:08, 9 September 2005 contribs)|m (→Spacing things out)
19:04, 9 September 2005 contribs)| (→Text formatting -- controlling how it looks - combined with nbsp example)
19:02, 9 September 2005 contribs)| (→Spacing things out - Moved section)
14:15, 9 September 2005 contribs)|m (→Internal Links)
14:07, 9 September 2005 contribs)| (→Text formatting -- controlling how it looks - Reorganized a bit)
13:55, 9 September 2005 contribs)| (→Character formatting - Reorganized a bit)
14:18, 7 September 2005 contribs)| (→Tables, formulas, html)
14:16, 7 September 2005 contribs)| (→Transclusion - Simple explanations and examples.)
00:30, 7 September 2005 contribs)| (→Tips and Tricks - merge sections; template, using that term in the wider sense. In a stricter sense a template is such a page in the Template namespace.)
16:41, 6 September 2005 contribs)|m (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines)
16:30, 6 September 2005 contribs)| (→Tips and Tricks - Note on transclusion)
16:16, 6 September 2005 contribs)|m (→Wikitext markup -- making your page look the way you want it - removed initial space)
16:14, 6 September 2005 contribs)| (Statement of purpose for this document. Request not to delete the "meat" (use transclude instead?))
15:57, 6 September 2005 contribs)| (Statement of purpose for this document.)
15:29, 6 September 2005 contribs)|m (→Dummy edit and null edit - removed now-empty section)
15:28, 6 September 2005 contribs)| (Moved "dummy" and "null" edit info to "minor edit" info I don't know -- maybe all of this should NOT go at the very top?)
15:14, 6 September 2005 contribs)| (→Images - Included Other Media Links. Some rewording and reordering)
14:39, 6 September 2005 contribs)| (→Links, URLs - Rewording, reordering. Using ";" headings)
12:50, 6 September 2005 contribs)| (→Spacing things out - A little rewording)
12:31, 6 September 2005 contribs)| (→Dummy edit and null edit)
03:06, 6 September 2005 User:4.224.189.109 (/* Tips and Tricks / dummy edit /* typo)
02:44, 6 September 2005 User:4.224.189.109 (→Dummy edit and null edit - adding dot dummy edit method)
22:21, 5 September 2005 contribs)|m (Reverted edits by 202.46.19.93 to last version by 24.85.70.132)
20:00, 1 September 2005 contribs)| (→Filling the page with wiki markup - It has GOT to come back in. Please tighten/tidy. Don't delete it again. Newbies need it here.)
19:53, 1 September 2005 contribs)|m (→Dummy edit and null edit)
19:52, 1 September 2005 contribs)|m (→Spacing things out)
19:51, 1 September 2005 contribs)| (Massive reorganization. Trying to make this readable again. What was wrong with the one on Wikipedia?)
19:42, 1 September 2005 contribs)| (→Minor edits - Verbose. replaced with v. from wikipedia. "why" is in wikipedia entry.)
19:40, 1 September 2005 contribs)|m (→Dummy edit and null edit)
19:39, 1 September 2005 contribs)| (→Editing Basics <-- start here - of course start here. tightened text)
13:59, 31 August 2005 contribs)| (→Dummy edit and null edit - Moving these two paragraphs to a new page all by themselves seems pointless. Maybe there should be an "advanced editing topics" page instead.)
11:31, 30 August 2005 contribs)| (→Dummy edit and null edit)
11:30, 30 August 2005 contribs)| (→Dummy edit and null edit)
11:28, 30 August 2005 contribs)| (→Dummy edit and null edit)
05:30, 17 July 2005 contribs)| (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines - Note: Single equal signs give the highest level heading, like the page title; usually projects have the convention not to use them.)
13:25, 14 June 2005 contribs)| (==More on lists==)
13:18, 14 June 2005 contribs)| (A list item can only be one paragraph, unless <nowiki><br><br></nowiki> is used:)
07:24, 13 June 2005 contribs)|m (→Extra indentation of lists)
07:01, 13 June 2005 contribs)|m (→Extra indentation of lists)
06:59, 13 June 2005 contribs)| (→Extra indentation of lists)
06:30, 13 June 2005 contribs)| (→Multi-column numbered lists; extra indentation of lists)
06:13, 13 June 2005 contribs)| (→More on numbered lists - misc)
06:07, 13 June 2005 contribs)| (→More on numbered lists)
22:10, 12 June 2005 contribs)| (→More on numbered lists)
21:37, 12 June 2005 contribs)| (→More on numbered lists)
12:09, 12 June 2005 contribs)| (→More on numbered lists)
12:08, 12 June 2005 contribs)|m (→More on numbered lists)
12:06, 12 June 2005 contribs)| (→More on numbered lists)
11:55, 12 June 2005 contribs)| (==More on numbered lists==)
11:13, 12 June 2005 contribs)| (→Spacing things out)
11:11, 12 June 2005 contribs)| (→Spacing things out)
10:50, 12 June 2005 contribs)|m (→Spacing things out)
10:47, 12 June 2005 contribs)| (→Spacing things out - In these templates there are empty cells for the spacing, but one can also use large cells for the contents, and specify the desired alignment.)
10:44, 12 June 2005 contribs)| (==Spacing things out==)
11:57, 25 April 2005 contribs)| (The redirect page shows the canonical form of the target, unlike its preview page, which renders the link in the usual way, compare [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babel&redirect=no] with)
08:53, 25 April 2005 contribs)| (→Composition of the edit page)
08:48, 25 April 2005 contribs)| (==Composition of the edit page==)
23:51, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (→General - Depending on the preferences that has been set, the rendered page is also shown; if not you get it by pressing Preview, see below.)
21:59, 1 April 2005 contribs)| (→See also - If, due to server problems, a save command results in an error message, either the saving has failed, or just the confirmation. Check e.g. My Contributions to find out.)
20:35, 28 March 2005 contribs)|m (remove vandalizm)
07:48, 24 March 2005 contribs)| (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines - otherwise that part would be hidden in the TOC)
07:46, 24 March 2005 contribs)| ((However, in most cases a section header is more useful. The horizontal dividing line should only be used if what follows is logically part of the same section.))
07:40, 24 March 2005 contribs)| (→Links, URLs - rv, is adverb)
01:12, 24 March 2005 User:24.16.121.241 (→Links, URLs - minor edit--'internally' to 'internal')
12:23, 10 March 2005 contribs)| (The edit link of a page showing an old version leads to an edit page with the old wikitext. This allows restoring the old version. However, the edit link of a diff page gives the current wikitext,)
02:34, 19 February 2005 contribs)|m (→General - simplification)
02:34, 19 February 2005 contribs)|m (→General - Updated button name to "Show preview," erased extra sentence)
01:11, 11 February 2005 contribs)| (Dummy edit and null edit)
00:27, 11 February 2005 contribs)| (To refresh the cache of some item in the database a lesser kind of dummy edit may be sufficient: one that does not cause any change in the wikitext, and no entry in the history, in Recent Changes, etc)
07:03, 7 February 2005 contribs)|m (Transposition of the first two template tags)
10:45, 21 September 2004 contribs)| (Editor toc handbook sidebar, I'm not marking this as minor, as I need to judge community reaction, in a week or so any of these sidbar additions will be marked as minor)
13:02, 10 September 2004 contribs)|m (→Dummy edit)
12:58, 10 September 2004 contribs)| (Also it is sometimes needed to refresh the cache of some item in the database, see e.g. [[Help:Category#A_category_specified_in_a_template.3B_caching_problem|A category specified in a template; cachin)
06:59, 24 August 2004 contribs)|m (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines)
06:57, 24 August 2004 contribs)| (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines - Summarizing the effect of a single newline: no effect in general, but it ends a list item or indented part; thus changing some text into a list item, or ind)
16:27, 21 August 2004 contribs)| (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines -newline)
08:11, 21 August 2004 contribs)| (→Wikitext for which the result does not depend on the position in the wikitext page - done as suggested in Talk)
08:52, 18 August 2004 contribs)|m (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines)
08:26, 18 August 2004 contribs)| (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines -Sufficient as wikitext code is <br>, the XHTML code <br /> is not needed, the system produces this code.)
08:09, 18 August 2004 contribs)| (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines - the wikitext code is <br>, this is translated into the xhtml code <br />)
08:00, 18 August 2004 contribs)| (the wikitext code is <br>, this is translated into the xhtml code <br />)
00:51, 18 August 2004 contribs)|m (s/<br>/<br \/>/g following xhtml standards)
11:31, 6 August 2004 User:80.126.56.215 (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines - (in Cologne Blue two newlines and a div tag gives just one newline; in the order newline, div tag, newline it gives two newlines))
21:09, 1 August 2004 contribs)|m (→See also - Relinking 'Protecting pages' to the new location of its description)
11:40, 23 July 2004 contribs)| (A dummy edit is a change in wikitext that has no effect on the rendered page, such as changing the number of w:newlines at some position from 0 to 1 or from 2 to 3 or conversely (changing from 1)
11:29, 23 July 2004 contribs)| (but first make sure nobody else has edited the page after you saved your local copy, otherwise you may accidently revert the changes of the other; or if you discover the edit before you save your new)
08:05, 22 July 2004 contribs)| (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines -rm discussion of usage of newline)
07:59, 22 July 2004 contribs)| (again, only relevant examples on the right, not all explanation)
07:50, 22 July 2004 contribs)| (rm wikitext of explanation: linking and * are off-topic in this box)
23:17, 21 July 2004 User:162.115.172.125 (→Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines)
22:20, 21 July 2004 contribs)| (→Links, URLs - blending seems to work again here)
12:34, 9 July 2004 contribs)| (→Links, URLs - [http://www.nupedia.com])
09:32, 9 July 2004 contribs)| (→Links, URLs -when section editing does not work the link is treated as link to the page, i.e. to the top; this applies for: / blending does not work)
22:00, 8 July 2004 contribs)| (See also MediaWiki architecture.)
14:46, 8 July 2004 contribs)| (→See also - *Help:Calculation)
14:37, 8 July 2004 User:195.243.10.252 (Corrected link to Low Saxon version of this page. The wikipedia had been moved from za to nds.)
12:30, 8 July 2004 contribs)| ((<nowiki><p></nowiki> disables this paragraphing in the rest of the section) (this looks like a bug, but is perhaps sometimes a useful feature))
10:13, 8 July 2004 contribs)|m (→Character formatting)
10:11, 8 July 2004 contribs)| (→Character formatting -To show these character references, replace & by &amp;)
22:01, 2 July 2004 contribs)| (→Templates - (or if the name starts with a namespace prefix, it refers to the page with that name).)
13:22, 1 July 2004 contribs)| (→Wikitext for which the result does not depend on the position in the wikitext page - the mutual order is preserved, but otherwise the positions within the page are immaterial)
13:10, 1 July 2004 contribs)| (→Wikitext for which the result does not depend on the position in the wikitext page)
13:03, 1 July 2004 contribs)| (Wikitext for which the result does not depend on the position in the wikitext page)
14:07, 8 June 2004 contribs)|m (Some text on a page may correspond in the edit box to just a reference to another page, in the form {{name}}, referring the page "Template:name". This is called a template. For changing that text, edi)
14:05, 8 June 2004 contribs)| (Some text on a page may correspond in the edit box to just a reference to another page, in the form {{name}}, referring the page "Template:name". This is called a template. For changing that text, edi)
13:19, 8 June 2004 User:194.81.199.46 (Someone must have wiped out some td and tr tags at some point)
08:38, 4 June 2004 contribs)| (→Variables - update)
23:32, 2 June 2004 contribs)| (In a few cases the link labeled "{{MediaWiki:Editthispage}}" is replaced by the text "{{MediaWiki:Protectedpage}}" (or equivalents in the language of the project). In that case the page can not be edi)
10:17, 18 April 2004 contribs)| (When moving or copying a piece of text within a page or from another page, and also making other edits, it is useful to separate these edits. This way the dif function)
14:17, 16 December 2003 contribs)| (In a few cases the link labeled "Edit this page" is replaced by the text "Protected page". In that case the page can not be edited. )
20:35, 13 December 2003 contribs)|m (Fixed interwiki link)
21:46, 28 November 2003 contribs)|m (Added interwiki link)
