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This page tells you how to edit [ edit = change or make new ] pages in Wikipedia. Anyone can make pages. If you are learning how to make pages, it is a good idea to begin in the Sandbox.

Go to the Sandbox, click on "edit", then write something. When you are ready, tell people what you wrote in the small "edit summary" box. For example, if you wrote a new article about god, write "new article about god" in the box.

Next, press the "Show preview" button and you can see what the page will look like. When you are all ready, and you want to keep the page, press "Save page" - and your page is in the BrahmaKumaris.Info Wiki encyclopedia. Do not worry if it is not perfect, it will be reviewed and corrected.

To make a new page, use the "search" box to find or make a link with that name, e.g. 108 if you want to write about 108. Then click "Go". If there is no page with that name, you will read: "You can create an article with this title or ask for someone to write it". Click on "create an article" to make a new page, or click on "ask for someone to write it" to ask other people to make a new page.

The page name should be singular, for example "angel" not "angels". The first word can have a capital letter at the start, for example "Soul", not "soul". If the next words are a name, they can have a capital letter too, for example "Brahma Baba" not "Brahma baba". If the words are not a name, do not use a second capital letters, e.g. "Morning class" not "Morning class".

At the start of the new page you make, write the name of the page in the first sentence, and in bold (fat) writing.

Making an encyclopedia page

Bold text

These words are in "bold" (fat, heavy) text: one, two, three

To make text bold, use three apostrophes (') before and after the word. (An apostrophe is also called a single quote or an inverted comma.)

For example: '''Bold text''' = Bold text

Italics

These words are in "italics" (slanted): one, two, three

To make text in italics, use two apostrophes (') before and after the word.
For example: ''Italic text'' = Italic text

Links to other Wikipedia pages

To make a link to another Wikipedia page, put the name of the page inside two square brackets ([).
For example: [[London]] = London

You can also give the same link a different name:
London centre (this link is also to "London"). To do this, write: [[London|London centre]]

If the link is part of the name, you can make the link in this way:
There are three [[London]]s = There are three Londons.
[[London]]wasis = Londonwasis.

Links to other pages not on Wikipedia

To make a link to other pages which are not on Wikipedia, write the address inside one square bracket ([), then write a name for the page.
For example: [http://www.google.co.uk Google] = Google

Minor (very small) edits

When you save a page you can also say it is a "minor edit". This is a very small change, for example changing one or two words or making a new title. When you look at Newest changes, you can say if you want to see minor edits or not.

If you make a big change but say it is a minor edit, people think this is not good. If you make a mistake and say a big change is a minor edit, make a new edit and say what you did.

Headings (titles)

The page you are reading now, "How to edit", has headings (titles). The first heading is "Making an encyclopedia page". Under that heading there is a smaller heading, "Bold (thick) text".

To make a big heading, write it in this way:

==Big Heading==

To make a smaller heading, write it in this way:

===Smaller Heading===

When you make headings, Wikipedia automatically makes a table of contents - a list of all the headings - at the start of the page. You do not need to make the table, you only need to make the headings. Do not start the page by writing a heading. Write some general information first.

Lists

This is a list:

• Soul
• Spirit
• Atma

To make a list, write it in this way:
* Soul
* Spirit
* Atma

You can make different sorts of lists:

• Soul
  • Spirit
    • Atma

Write different lists in this way:
* Soul
** Spirit
** Atma
*** poodles

Making a space at the start of a line

You can also make a space at the start of a line.

For example:

Soul

Spirit

Atma

Ghost

You can make a space in this way:

: Spirit

If you write more colons (:) the space is bigger.

Putting text in the centre of the page

You can put text in the centre in this way:

<center>This is in the centre</center>

Making a line across the page

Here is a line going across the page:

You can make a line in this way:

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What are talk pages?

One example of a talk page is Talk:Light. On this page, people are talking about the page Light. On a talk page we talk to other people about Wiki pages.

If you have a problem with a page and you want to talk about it, click on "Talk about this page".

When you write on a talk page, write your name. You can write your name automatically; write three tildes (~):

for example: ~~~ = tutorial

When you write four tildes, you also get the time:

for example: ~~~~ = [[User:WikiSysop|WikiSysop]]21:45, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

WikiSysop 00:14, 24 April 2006 (BST)