Help:Contributing to Wikibooks

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Contents 1 Contributing to Wikibooks 1.1 How to 1.2 Images 1.3 Style 1.4 Formatting 1.5 Templates 1.6 Wiki syntax 1.7 Page maintenance

Contributing to Wikibooks

How to

• Start a new page or book
• Name a page
• Edit a page, including markup details.
• Use sections on a page
• Use the sandbox for Testing.
• Categories

Images

• Image description pages
• How to upload images to Wikibooks
• Images and other uploaded files
• Graphics tutorials

Style

• Manual of Style
• Local Manual of Style

Formatting

• HTML codes in wikitext
• Use special characters
• See also the book on Editing Wikitext

Templates

• A quick guide to templates
• Templates
• List of available templates

Wiki syntax

• Tables
• Redirect
• Editing shortcuts
• Use easy timeline syntax
• Math Equations and Formulas
• Links

• Use an alternate name for links (the piped link)
• Create links to external pages

• Magic words allow you to change default behaviour or automate text. See also: Variables.

Page maintenance

• To learn how to keep track of your (or other people's) edits, see Tracking changes
• Dealing with vandalism
• Deleting pages/images/categories
• Looking at a page's history
• Looking at related changes
• Comparing page revisions
• Stub pages