Changes

If you are accustomed to using text processors like Microsoft Word, then this view should be pretty familiar. Let's go over the different elements of it.

On the top you can see three tabs. The first one is the editing view you are already in. This view is for the raw text that will be displayed on the page after you save it. The next tab is to preview the changes you just made without actually saving them. The third tab shows you how the version of the article you are writing differs from the one that was saved before. Of course, in case of a new article, it won't show you much.

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A - Adds your signature. This is useful for commenting in the Talk pages, since you don't need to write your nickname and make a link to your profile every time you are making a comment. During the editing, you will see the signature as a number of hyphens and tildes. But don't worry, these will get replaced by your signature and a link to your profile after saving the page.

B - Inserts a link, either a local wiki link to an article here, or an external link that leads to somewhere on the Internet.

You may have also noticed the little blue arrows on the right side of the links. These indicates that they are external links and lead outside of the wiki. A local link, that goes to an article that is on this very wiki, does not have the little arrow. Example: [[Smartglasses]]. The wiki will take care of forming a proper HTML link for the article, so you don't have to worry about creating a HTML link manually.

C - Inserts a file, usually a picture, to the body of the article.

You can also type the caption for the file, as well as select it's position and dimensions on the page. For more information on how to work with inserting images and other files, refer to the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images MediWiki Images Help page].

D - Creates a reference at the position of the cursor.