Help:Saving
There two different ways of saving/publishing your changes based on the editor you are using:
- VisualEditor - Blue Publish
- Enhanced editor - "Save page" button at the bottom of the page
Both options allow you to "Show preview" and "Show changes." After you save the changes, you can always review them in the article history or your contributions.
VisualEditor
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When you're done editing, click the blue Publish changes button in the toolbar. If you have not made any changes, the button will be disabled (grayed out). To cancel all your editing changes, just close your browser window.
Publish box and edit summary
Pressing the blue "Publish changes" button opens a "Save your changes" dialog box. On that box there are a couple of options.
- In the large text box, you should enter a brief summary of your actions, mark your edit as minor, and add the page to your Watchlist. The box for the summary is the equivalent of the edit summary field in the wikitext editor.
- You can also review your changes using the "Review your changes" button to be sure they will work as intended before saving your changes. This is similar to the "Show preview" button in the Enhanced editor summary section of each page. (see below)
- The "Resume editing" button returns you to the page you were editing. You can save and publish all of your changes later.
Review your changes
On the "Review your changes" screen, you to see the results of your changes. Below the blue "Save changes" button, it is possible to toggle between the two ways, Visual or Wikitext, of viewing those changes. From this screen, you can also either:
- Save changes - The edit summary you entered, if at all, on the "Save your changes" screen will be added to your edit
- "Resume editing" button returns you to the page you were editing.
- "Return to save form" will bring you back to "Save your changes" screen"
| VisualEditor | Wikitext |
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Resume editing
Clicking on the "Resume editing" will allow you to continue editing, while preserving any edit summary you might have already drafted. Using the Esc on your keyboard achieves the same results.
Enhanced editor
When using the Enhanced editor, you are presented a couple of options below the Edit summary including to Save page. There are also two other options
Show preview
Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this prior to saving. This allows you to check what the page will look like first and to check that you haven't made any errors. It also prevents the need for multiple saves. Saving the same article a large number of times in quick succession makes it harder for people to check what changed, and clogs up the article history.
See Wikipedia's Show preview article
for a complete description of this topic.
Show changes
The show changes feature will give you a Difference view of the page text before and after your changes. You still need to save the page to have the contents be updated in the wiki.
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