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Wikipedia Training
Editing
Getting started: Basic tasks
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Some of the typical editing and formatting tasks you can try out to begin with are:
- Bolding and italicizing text
- Creating headers
- Editing subsections
- Creating bulleted and numbered lists
- Creating links
- Creating references
- Starting a sandbox page
You should also familiarize yourself with:
- The distinctions among article pages, talk pages and user pages
- The use of talk pages