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Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule

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This reading schedule is designed to assist editors in becoming familiar with Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

Benefits

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Here are some ways in which you can benefit from this reading schedule.

  1. You can analyze how the style guidelines promote clarity and consistency in Wikipedia articles, and how they contribute to harmony among editors.
  2. There are many style guides.
    1. If you edit another language version of Wikipedia, then you can compare the guidelines for that language version with the guidelines for the English version.
    2. If you edit the English version of another Wikimedia project, then you can compare its guidelines with the guidelines for English Wikipedia. (See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Style guides on other Wikimedia projects.)
    3. If you use or have used a style guide of a university or a publishing company, then you can compare its guidelines with the guidelines for English Wikipedia.
  3. As you study each guideline, you can anticipate situations where you can apply it, and you can even contrive texts for practicing it in your own workspace.
  4. You can adopt a guideline, and devise search terms for finding errors needing correction. (Compare Wikipedia:Adopt-a-typo.) Alternatively, you can select articles (either at random or from lists or categories of your choice) and correct a variety of errors in each article.

Weeks

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Current week: 46                      Current weekday: 6

  1. Wikipedia:Manual of Style: introduction
  2. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles
  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section organization
  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings
  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English
  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: introduction and first four subsections
  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines
  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: Calendar items; Animals, plants, and other organisms
  9. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: Celestial bodies; Compass points; Institutions
  10. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Ligatures and Abbreviations: first four "subsections"
  11. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Abbreviations: last four "subsections" and Ampersand
  12. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics: first five "subsections"
  13. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics: last four "subsections"
  14. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Non-breaking spaces
  15. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Original wording
  16. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Typographic conformity
  17. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Quotations within quotations; Attribution; Linking
  18. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Block quotations; non-English quotations
  19. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Apostrophes
  20. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: introduction and first four "subsections"
  21. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: Reasons to prefer straight quotation marks and apostrophes (and double quotation marks)
  22. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: Names and titles
  23. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: Punctuation inside or outside
  24. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses: introduction
  25. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses: Sentences and brackets
  26. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses: Brackets and linking
  27. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Ellipses
  28. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Commas: introduction
  29. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Commas: Serial commas
  30. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Colons
  31. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Semicolons
  32. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens: "sub subsections" 1 and 2 and 3
  33. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens: Multi-hyphenated items; Spacing; Image filenames and redirects; Non-breaking; Soft hyphens
  34. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dashes: introduction; Punctuating a sentence (em or en dashes); Unspaced em dash; Spaced en dash
  35. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dashes: "En dashes: other uses" and "Other dashes"
  36. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Slashes
  37. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation: Number signs; Terminal punctuation; Spacing
  38. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation: Consecutive punctuation marks; Punctuation and footnotes; Punctuation and formulae
  39. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates and time
  40. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Numbers
  41. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Currencies
  42. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Units of measurement
  43. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Common mathematical symbols
  44. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Grammar and usage
  45. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Vocabulary
  46. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
  47. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Bulleted and numbered lists
  48. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Links
  49. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Miscellaneous
  50. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also: introduction; Guidance; Development; Other community standards
  51. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also: Names; Capitalization; Language varieties; Non-English terms used in English
  52. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also: Quotations in articles; Numbers, times, and dates; Lists; Punctuation guidance

See also

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