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[[Saintapedia]] is '''editable''' by anyone invited as guest. 
* We trust our editors. To balance the power granted to every Saintapedia editor to change any article, there are certain set of [[Saintapedia:Accountability features|accountability features]] built into the wiki including:
** you must have an account to edit
** all edits are linked to the account of the editor who made them and
** any editor can undo any edit.
* Anyone who has edited is known as a "Saintapedian" and, no matter how trivial the edit may seem, they should be proud that they have helped make Saintapedia such in important source of information. All of these edits add up!
== Editors ==
There are two different editors that you can use to make changes to Saintapedia:

* [[Help:Visual editor|VisualEditor]] allows you to make changes similar to a Word/Google Docs file ({{W|article=What You See Is What You Get}})
* [[Help:Enhanced editor|Enhanced editor]] is allows for more precision in editing, however it does have a higher learning curve

=== VisualEditor ===
{| 
|Editing most Saintapedia pages is simple. 
# Click on the '''"Edit"''' tab at the top of a Saintapedia page to launch [[Help:Visual editor|Visual editor]]
# Make any edits that you feel are needed.
# Click on "Save changes" (ideally adding an [[Edit summary]] of what you changed).
|[[Image:Edit button.png|350px|right]]
|}

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=== Edit source/Enhanced editor ===
[[File:Enhanced editor advanced tab.png|500px|right]]
Editors also have the option to use the older, but more precise [[Enhanced editor]] by clicking on '''"Edit source."''' This will bring you to a new page with a text box containing the editable text of the current page.
* In the text box in the new page, you can type in the text that you want to add to the page.
* The [[Help:Editing toolbar|Editing Toolbar]] above the text box can help with formatting as well as adding sections and [[links]].
*A [[cheat sheet]] has been developed to be a quick reference to wikitext and you can can always return to this help page by clicking 'Editing help', found near the 'save page' button.
When you have finished editing, you should write a short [[edit summary]] in the small field below the edit-box. 
* To see how the page looks with your edits, press the ''Show preview'' button. 
* To see the differences between the page with your edits and the previous version of the page, press the ''Show changes'' button. 
* If you're satisfied with what you see, be bold and press the '''"Save page"''' button. 
Your changes will immediately be visible to all Saintapedia users. If you made a mistake, you can always [[Help:Article history#Undo|undo]] your changes. Saintapedia also has a way for you to [[Help:Tracking changes|keeping track of changes to a page]].

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=== Editing sections ===
Next to each [[section heading]], there are also <code>[ {{Underline|edit}} | {{Underline|edit source}} ]</code> links.  
* <code>{{Underline|edit}}</code> will open the entire page using [[Help:Visual editor|Visual editor]], but centered with that section at the top of the screen
* <code>{{Underline|edit source}}</code> will only open that section, and any sub-heading, for editing using [[Enhanced editor]] and the [[Editing toolbar]]

==Basic editing==

{| class="wikitable"
!Visual editor
!Edit source
|-
|[[Help:Visual editor#VisualEditor toolbar|VisualEditor toolbar]]
|Using [[Help:Editing toolbar|Editing toolbar]]
|-
|[[Help:Visual editor#Links|Adding links]]
|[[Help:Link|Creating links]]
|-
|[[Help:Visual editor#Adding an image|Adding an image]]
|[[Help:Common formatting issues|Common formatting issues]]
|-
|[[Help:Visual editor#Tables|Working with tables]]
|[[Help:Table#Standard table format|Standard table format]]
|-
|[[Help:Visual editor#Templates|Adding templates]]
|[[Help:Wiki markup|Advanced Wikitext]]
|-
|[[Help:Visual editor#Limits|Visual editor limits]]
|Using [[Help:Show preview|Show preview]] to avoid errors
|-
| colspan="2" |BOTH - [[Help:Article history#Edit Summaries|Edit summary]] explains what change you made
|-
| colspan="2" |BOTH - [[Creating a New Article|Creating a new page]] ([[Help:User Page Creation|creating your user page]])
|}

== Adding Non-Text Items==
:* [[Help:Images and media|Pictures and videos]]
:* [[Help:Table|Tables]]
:* [[Help:Reference|References]]
:* [[Help:Category|Categories]] 
:* [[Help:Magic words|"Magic words"]] &ndash; These allow you to change default behaviour or automate text. For example, you can disable a Table of Contents, move its position or insert constants and timestamps. 
:* [[Help:Templates|Templates]] 
:** [[Help:Template|Creating templates]] 
:* [[Template:Infobox|Infoboxes]] 
:* [[Help:Table of Contents|Table of Contents]] 
:* [[Help:Redirect|Redirects]]

==Article maintenance==
:* [[Help:Using talk pages|Use talk pages (discussion pages)]] 
:* [[Help:Edit conflict|Edit conflict]] &ndash; How to handle one. 
:* [[Help:Renaming|Move or rename a page]] 
:* [[Help:Reverting|Revert a page]] to an earlier version 
:* [[Disambiguation|Disambiguation]], create pages for topics with several different definitions 
:* [[stub|Stub articles]] 
:* [[Help:Interwiki links|Link words in articles to Saintapedia sister projects]] 
:* [[Help:Namespace|Use namespaces]] 
:* [[Template:Purge|Do a purge]] 
:* [[Help:Renaming|How to Edit an Article Title]] 
:* For lists of [[Stub|stub]] types, [[Help:Category|categories]] and [[Template:Infobox|infoboxes]], etc., see [[Help:Resources and lists|resources and lists]]. 
:* [[Help:Merging|Merging]] two or more pages
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