Help:Editing

Editing is easy in wikis. Anyone who is a WebHostingTalk member in good standing and is logged in can edit WHTwiki pages. We ask that you follow these WHTwiki editing guidelines.

1 Discussion
2 Editing steps
3 Editing for grammar, spelling, and punctuation
4 Editing for readability
5 See also

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Discussion

Every article has its own talk page, where you can ask questions, make suggestions, and discuss possible changes. Click the Discussion link at the top of the page to see it.

If the part of the article that you want to change is under debate, join in the discussion. Edit only when a consensus has been reached. If you want to make major changes to what someone else wrote, use wikiquette and ask for opinions first.

Sign your message on the Talk page by typing four tildes (~~~~). The wiki software turns them into the current time and your username.

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Editing steps

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Open the edit box

At the top of every page (except for locked pages) is an Edit link. Pages with headings also have Edit links to the right of each heading. Click on an Edit link, and the page or section content will appear in an edit box. Above the box is an edit bar with formatting buttons for bold, headings, and other types of formatting.

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Decide if you want to continue

This reminder/agreement appears below the edit box:

Please note that all contributions to WHTwiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then don't submit it here.

You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Project:Copyrights for details). DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!

If you choose not to continue, click on Cancel.

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Add to or modify the content

Make changes to the text in the edit box. Write clearly and concisely, use a neutral point of view, and check that your edit improves the page.

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Choose options

Below the edit box are these options:

Summary: Summaries of changes made appear on some of the Special pages. These summaries help other people see what you changed. Examples of what to put in the Summary box:
- Added a link to [link]
- Expanded [what you expanded on]
- Changed [what you changed] to [what you changed it to]
- Removed [what you removed]
- Corrected spelling
- Fixed a typo
- Corrected grammar
This is a minor edit: If the edit is a minor one, such as fixing grammar or formatting, check this box. Doing so is considered good wikiquette and helps other people know that the page content is almost the same as before.
Watch this page: When this box is checked, the page is added to your watchlist. (See the My watchlist link under Personal tools.) You can choose via Preferences to be sent email notifications of changes to pages on your watchlist. Email notifications of minor edits are a separate option.

The default settings for "This is a minor edit" and "Watch this page" can be changed via your Preferences.

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Preview, check, and save

To check the formatting and proofread your work, click on Preview. Click on Show Changes to see the text with the changes that you made to it. Note that the page is not saved by clicking on these buttons.

When you’re satisfied with the content, click on Save. If you didn’t enter a summary of your changes, a message will appear telling you that the page isn’t saved yet. Or if you don’t want to save your changes, click on Cancel.

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Editing for grammar, spelling, and punctuation

See Style guide for WHTwiki conventions to follow, in particular the section about country-specific conventions.

When you see obvious mistakes that are not variations from other countries, you can fix them. If you aren’t sure if something is correct, or how to correct it, ask about it on the page’s talk page.

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