Peacebuilding:How to edit a page
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You can edit most articles on this site by clicking the edit link. You'll get a browser text-entry box with the current contents of the page formatted in Wiki markup.
You can modify the page, but it helps the rest of us if you follow our manual of style, but don't let that stop you from having a go. It's more important that you add something than that you do it perfectly.
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Previewing & saving a page
To see what your changes will look like, hit the Show preview button, which will not save the page. Do a preview just before saving the page, to make sure your changes look right. When you're happy with the changes, hit the Save page button to save the page.
You can cancel your edits by clicking the Cancel link, and of course Editing help brings you here.
Beneath the article editing text box is a short field labelled Summary. This is for putting a short note about what you've done to an article. It can be helpful for administrators to quickly see what you did.
If you've edited a page but it doesn't seem to have changed you should probably look at Special:Recentchanges, since it is likely that someone has done a rollback of your change, and may have given an informative reason.
The Watch this article checkbox puts this article on your watchlist. Any changes to the article, or to the article's talk page, by you or anyone else will show up in your watchlist, so you can keep an eye on the article.
Starting new pages
If you are starting a new page from scratch, please familiarise yourself with existing page layouts in order to give a consistent look. See Peacebuilding:How to start a new page for more information.
Restoring previous article versions
If an editor changes or removes content from an article the old versions of the article are still available from the article's history. To view article history, click on the "history" tab for any article, then click on the date for the revision that you are interested in. To revert the article to the specified revision, simply click on the "edit" tab while viewing the old version and then re-save the version. Alternately, if you just want to revert a single edit click on the "undo" link from an article's history next to the edit that is being reverted.
