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Essay on editing Wikipedia
This reading schedule is designed to assist editors in becoming familiar with
Wikipedia:Manual of Style .
Here are some ways in which you can benefit from this reading schedule.
You can analyze how the style guidelines promote clarity and consistency in Wikipedia articles, and how they contribute to harmony among editors.
There are many
style guides .
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.
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 .)
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.
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.
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.
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Wikipedia:Manual of Style : introduction
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section organization
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters : introduction and first four subsections
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters : Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters : Calendar items; Animals, plants, and other organisms
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters : Celestial bodies; Compass points; Institutions
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Ligatures and
Abbreviations : first four "subsections"
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Abbreviations : last four "subsections" and Ampersand
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics : first five "subsections"
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics : last four "subsections"
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Non-breaking spaces
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations : Original wording
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations : Typographic conformity
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations : Quotations within quotations; Attribution; Linking
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations : Block quotations; Foreign-language quotations
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Apostrophes
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks : introduction and first four "subsections"
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks : Reasons to prefer straight quotation marks and apostrophes (and double quotation marks)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks : Names and titles
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks : Punctuation inside or outside
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses : introduction
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses : Sentences and brackets
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses : Brackets and linking
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Ellipses
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Commas : introduction
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Commas : Serial commas
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Colons
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Semicolons
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens : "sub subsections" 1 and 2 and 3
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens : Multi-hyphenated items; Spacing; Image filenames and redirects; Non-breaking; Soft hyphens
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dashes : introduction; Punctuating a sentence (em or en dashes); Unspaced em dash; Spaced en dash
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dashes : "En dashes: other uses" and "Other dashes"
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Slashes
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation : Number signs; Terminal punctuation; Spacing
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation : Consecutive punctuation marks; Punctuation and footnotes; Punctuation and formulae
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates and time
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Numbers
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Currencies
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Units of measurement
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Common mathematical symbols
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Grammar and usage
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Vocabulary
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Bulleted and numbered lists
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Links
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Miscellaneous
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also : introduction; Guidance; Development; Other community standards
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also : Names; Capitalization; Language varieties; Foreign terms used in English
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also : Quotations in articles; Numbers, times, and dates; Lists; Punctuation guidance