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You can <s>strike out deleted material</s>
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==Who Can Participate?==
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All users can comment on the site and network with others via the [[Talk:Main_Page|Discuss]] option on the Main Page top bar. All users can comment on a particular entry and network about it via the "Discuss” section of that entry.
<ins>inserted material</ins> using logical markup.
 
For backwards compatibility better combine this
 
potentially ignored new <del>logical</del> with
 
the old <s><del>physical</del></s> markup.
 
  
* When editing regular Wikipedia articles, just make your changes and do not mark them up in any special way.
 
* When editing your own previous remarks in talk pages, it is sometimes appropriate to mark up deleted or inserted material.
 
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You can <s>strike out deleted material</s>
 
and <u>underline new material</u>.
 
  
You can also mark <del>deleted material</del> and
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As an experiment in history by the people, all logged on users with data, documents, citations, or skills to share can create entries, or edit, add to, and improve any entry except those with a named creator, or those closed to protect their content.
<ins>inserted material</ins> using logical markup.
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For backwards compatibility better combine this
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potentially ignored new <del>logical</del> with
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==How Can I Participate?==
the old <s><del>physical</del></s> markup.
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In addition to [[Help:Create_an_Entry|  creating your own entries]], you can supplement or [[Help:Edit |edit]] existing unprotected entries.
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'''Suppressing interpretation of markup:'''
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===Delete and Add New Text===
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<nowiki>Link &rarr; (''to'') the [[Wikipedia FAQ]]</nowiki>
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To strike out deleted material add the tags <nowiki><s> and </s></nowiki> around the words you'd like to strike out. For example:
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* Escape all wiki markup, including that which looks like HTML tags.
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<nowiki><s>this material is incorrect</s></nowiki>
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* To escape HTML character references such as <tt>&amp;rarr;</tt> use <tt>&amp;amp;rarr;</tt>
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Which will appear like this on the web page:
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<s>this material is incorrect</s>
&lt;nowiki>Link &amp;rarr; (''to'')
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the [[Wikipedia FAQ]]&lt;/nowiki>
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You can underline new material by putting the tags <nowiki><u> and </u></nowiki> around the new text like this:
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<nowiki><u>underline new material</u></nowiki>
'''Commenting page source:'''
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Which shows up like this on the web page:
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* Note that most comments should go on the appropriate [[Wikipedia:Talk page|Talk page]].
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<u>underline new material</u>
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<pre><nowiki>
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===Invisible text (comments)===
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It's uncommon, but on occasion acceptable, to add a hidden comment within the text of an article by typing this:
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<nowiki><!--- This is an example of text that won't normally be visible except in "edit" mode. ---></nowiki>
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You must go to edit mode to see the following example on the web page:
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<!--- This is an example of text that won't normally be visible except in "edit" mode. --->

Latest revision as of 11:29, 30 July 2008

Who Can Participate?

All users can comment on the site and network with others via the Discuss option on the Main Page top bar. All users can comment on a particular entry and network about it via the "Discuss” section of that entry.


As an experiment in history by the people, all logged on users with data, documents, citations, or skills to share can create entries, or edit, add to, and improve any entry except those with a named creator, or those closed to protect their content.


How Can I Participate?

In addition to creating your own entries, you can supplement or edit existing unprotected entries.


Delete and Add New Text

To strike out deleted material add the tags <s> and </s> around the words you'd like to strike out. For example:

<s>this material is incorrect</s>


Which will appear like this on the web page:

this material is incorrect


You can underline new material by putting the tags <u> and </u> around the new text like this:

<u>underline new material</u>


Which shows up like this on the web page:

underline new material


Invisible text (comments)

It's uncommon, but on occasion acceptable, to add a hidden comment within the text of an article by typing this:

<!--- This is an example of text that won't normally be visible except in "edit" mode. --->


You must go to edit mode to see the following example on the web page: