Wikipedia: Editing Wikipedia Articles

The Wikipedia Adventure

This is an interactive tutorial that walks you through how to use Wikipedia. It covers how to create an account, edit pages, message users, and navigate the site. It takes less than an hour to complete, and by the end you will be ready to contribute to Wikipedia.

• The Wikipedia Adventure

Wikipedia: Tutorial

Live Map of Wikipedia Edits

Editing Overview

Visual Editor

If you would like to try VisualEditor without editing a live article, here is a page where you can freely test it. You don't need an account to use VisualEditor on that page.

An introductory tutorial series is also available here.

Helpful Links

• Video: How to Create a User Account on Wikipedia
• Video: Creating a User Page on Wikipedia
• Wikipedia Tutorial

  Takes you through the basics of editing, formatting, links, citing sources, talk pages, registration, and more.
• Editing Syntax Cheatsheet
• Manual of Style

  The style guide for all Wikipedia articles.
• How to edit a page

  Learn more about talk pages, minor edits, major edits, and adding references!
• Page history

  A page history shows the order in which changes were made to a Wikipedia article or other page on Wikipedia.
• Tutorial Videos for Editing Basics
• Your first article

  This is a guide to starting your first encyclopedia article.
• Article development

  How to grow well-written, comprehensive articles.
• Wikipedia Editing Policy
• Conflict of Interest

  This page in a nutshell: Do not edit Wikipedia to promote your own interests, or those of other individuals or of organizations, including employers. Do not write about these things unless you are certain that a neutral editor would agree that your edits improve Wikipedia.