Difference between revisions of "Ultronomicon:Editing Essentials"

Revision as of 07:13, 8 October 2004

Please read this page in its entirety before editing an Ultronomicon article.

As the Ultronomicon is still young, we don't yet have our own set of documents on style and content.

So for the moment we're pretty much following the Wikipedia conventions.

You can find more about those here:

So far, a number of issues keep coming up while people are editing the Ultronomicon. While the above links contain all the relevant information, these issues occur often enough and are important enough to be explicitely mentioned here.

How to Edit

Be bold when editing

If you have a problem with (part of) a page, by all means edit it. No one "owns" a page.

For more information see Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages.

Signing off on Talk pages

It is helpful when people can quickly see who wrote what on Talk pages. To this end, place '~~~~' at the end of your message; it will be replaced by your name and the current date and time.

Fill in the summary field

By filling in the summary field, you will make the page history and Special:Recentchanges page easier to use. Do this even for small changes, as an empty summary requires the reader to look at the actual changes to see what changed.

Mark minor edits as such

When you make only a very minor change such as a spelling or grammar correction, you should check the "This is a minor edit" checkbox. Minor edits can be filtered from the page history or Special:Recentchanges page, making browsing through these significantly easier.

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 To this end, place '<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>' at the end of your message; it will be replaced by your name and the current date and time.
-===Comment, comment, comment!===
-Comment. It's easy to do and prevents headaches down the road.
-==="Minor" editing checkbox===
+===Fill in the summary field===
-If you should make a very minor change to a page, such as a spelling or grammatical correction and nothing else, put a check in the "This is a minor edit" checkbox just below the comment field. By applying "minor" edits that can be filtered out when browsing page histories, the editing process is streamlined.
+By filling in the summary field, you will make the page history and [[Special:Recentchanges]] page easier to use. Do this even for small changes, as an empty summary requires the reader to look at the actual changes to see what changed.
+===Mark minor edits as such===
+When you make only a very minor change such as a spelling or grammar correction, you should check the "This is a minor edit" checkbox. Minor edits can be filtered from the page history or [[Special:Recentchanges]] page, making browsing through these significantly easier.