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Loco87: /* Abbreviations */

2014-06-29T12:29:19Z

‎Abbreviations

Solar Dragon at 10:40, November 19, 2011

2011-11-19T10:40:55Z

Solar Dragon: /* Upload summary */

2011-11-19T09:17:26Z

‎Upload summary

Solar Dragon at 09:17, November 19, 2011

2011-11-19T09:17:14Z

Cook879: /* Abbreviations */

2011-08-24T20:15:12Z

‎Abbreviations

Thai420 at 00:06, September 12, 2006

2006-09-12T00:06:21Z

Thai420 at 00:50, June 5, 2006

2006-06-05T00:50:42Z

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'''← [[Help: Contents]]'''

When editing an article on WWWiki there is a small field labeled "Summary" under the main edit box.

The text written here, up to 200 characters, will appear in italics on the ''Recent changes'' page and in the page revision history (see also below). You should write a short summary of the changes you have introduced into the article. In addition (or alternatively), the summary field could explain ''why'' the change to the article was made, in order to allay the concerns of other contributors (in the case of potentially controversial or confusing edits). Longer explanations should go on the [[Help:talk page|talk page]]s.

'''Always try to fill the summary.''' In the day-to-day operations, with a dozen (or hopefully more!) people all making changes at various times, it's better to have some summary of the changes rather than no summary at all. The summary can help people decide whether they should go read all of the changes that were made in your edit, or whether it's not important enough. (This would be in addition to the "minor edit" feature. See also [[Help: Editing]].)

==Abbreviations==
Efficient contributors to Wikipedia have developed a number of abbreviations for the summary field: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary]

{| border=1 align=center
|- bgcolor=#FFCC00
! Abbreviation(s)
! What it means
|-
| "+" or "-"
| Addition or removal, see ''rm'' or ''remove''
|-
| ''typo''
| Fixed typos (wags also use "tipo", "tyop", etc)
|-
| ''sp''
| Fixed spelling mistakes
|-
| ''lk(s)'' or ''link(s)''
| Added link(s)
|-
| ''ext lk / link(s)''
| Added external link(s)
|-
| ''wikified''
| Created links / converted markup, especially of new articles
|-
| ''fmt'',  ''fm'',  ''formatting'', or ''MoS''
| Applied [[Wikisimpsons:Manual of Style|manual of style]] formatting
|-
| ''<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[other page]]</nowiki>''
| Made the page a redirect to <nowiki>[[other page]]</nowiki>
|-
| ''copyedit''
| Miscellaneous copyediting
|-
| ''<nowiki>[[name of other article]]</nowiki>''
| Added the link [[name of other article]] (maybe a bit of text too); this is especially useful if the link is to a new article, to draw people's attention to that, for people who keep track of pages on their watchlist, but not systematically of all new pages.
|-
| ''rv''
| Reverted a previous edit (this short summary is sufficient only in the case of an obvious error or obvious vandalism)
|-
| ''see Talk''
| An explanation/discussion of this edit is on the article's [[Wikisimpsons:Talk page|talk page]].
|-
| ''rm'' or ''remove''
| Additions and removals are also sometimes abbreviated as "+" and "-" (e.g. "+official website link")
|-
| ''dup''
| Duplication, e.g. "-dup" or "rm dup"
|-
| ''disambig''
| [[Wikisimpsons:Disambiguation|Disambiguating]] a wiki link. (e.g. changing <nowiki>[[PDF]] to [[Portable Document Format|PDF]]</nowiki>)
|-
| ''ft''
| What follows gives the full added text, it does not make sense to open the article unless you want to see the text in context or want to make another edit.
|-
| ''cm''
| A comment was added to this page. This is most commonly used on [[Help:Talk page|talk pages]].
|}

Avoid "-" (single hyphen) as separation sign, it gives confusion with the meaning "remove".

=="Post a comment" feature==
When starting a new thread on a Talk page, optionally the "Post a comment" feature can be used. Then the edit summary is automatically the same as the new section header.

==Places where the edit summary appears==
The following pages generated by the MediaWiki software will display the edit summaries:

* [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]]
* [[Special:Contributions|User contributions]]
* [[Help:Page history|Page history]]
* [[Special:Watchlist|User watchlists]]
* [[Special:Relatedchanges|Related changes]]
* [[Special:Newpages|New pages]]

==Searching==
The [[Help:Search|Wikisimpsons search]] can not search edit summaries, and they are not indexed by Google.

==Upload summary==
When uploading an image, you can add an upload summary (see [[Help:Image description page|Image description page]]). If the upload is the first for a specific file name (i.e. it's creating a new Image: page), then the upload summary will also serve as the image description until it is edited. In all cases, the upload summary will be applied to the individual images that are uploaded.

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 Efficient contributors to Wikipedia have developed a number of abbreviations for the summary field: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary]
-{| border="1" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
+{{Table|
-! style="background-color: #FFD733; "|Abbreviation(s)
+{{THT|Abbreviation(s)}}
-! style="background-color: #FFD733; "|What it means
+{{TH|What it means}}
-|-
+{{TBT|"+" or "-"}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| "+" or "-"
+{{TB|Addition or removal, see ''rm'' or ''remove''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Addition or removal, see ''rm'' or ''remove''
+{{TBT|''typo''}}
-|-
+{{TB|Fixed typos (wags also use "tipo", "tyop", etc)}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''typo''
+{{TBT|''sp''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Fixed typos (wags also use "tipo", "tyop", etc)
+{{TB|Fixed spelling mistakes}}
-|-
+{{TBT|''lk(s)'' or ''link(s)''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''sp''
+{{TB|Added link(s)}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Fixed spelling mistakes
+{{TBT|''ext lk / link(s)''}}
-|-
+{{TB|Added external link(s)}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''lk(s)'' or ''link(s)''
+{{TBT|''wikified''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Added link(s)
+{{TB|Created links / converted markup, especially of new articles}}
-|-
+{{TBT|''fmt'',&nbsp;&nbsp;''fm'',&nbsp;&nbsp;''formatting'', or ''MoS''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''ext lk / link(s)''
+{{TB|Applied [[Wikisimpsons:Manual of Style|manual of style]] formatting}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Added external link(s)
+{{TBT|''<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[other page]]</nowiki>''}}
-|-
+{{TB|Made the page a redirect to <nowiki>[[other page]]</nowiki>}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''wikified''
+{{TBT|''copyedit''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Created links / converted markup, especially of new articles
+{{TB|Miscellaneous copyediting}}
-|-
+{{TBT|''<nowiki>[[name of other article]]</nowiki>''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''fmt'',&nbsp;&nbsp;''fm'',&nbsp;&nbsp;''formatting'', or ''MoS''
+{{TB|Added the link name of other article (maybe a bit of text too); this is especially useful if the link is to a new article, to draw people's attention to that, for people who keep track of pages on their watchlist, but not systematically of all new pages.}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Applied [[Wikisimpsons:Manual of Style|manual of style]] formatting
+{{TBT|''rv''}}
-|-
+{{TB|Reverted a previous edit (this short summary is sufficient only in the case of an obvious error or obvious vandalism)}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[other page]]</nowiki>''
+{{TBT|''see Talk''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Made the page a redirect to <nowiki>[[other page]]</nowiki>
+{{TB|An explanation/discussion of this edit is on the article's [[Wikisimpsons:Talk page|talk page]].}}
-|-
+{{TBT|''rm'' or ''remove''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''copyedit''
+{{TB|Additions and removals are also sometimes abbreviated as "+" and "-" (e.g. "+official website link")}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Miscellaneous copyediting
+{{TBT|''dup''}}
-|-
+{{TB|Duplication, e.g. "-dup" or "rm dup"}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''<nowiki>[[name of other article]]</nowiki>''
+{{TBT|''disambig''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Added the link name of other article (maybe a bit of text too); this is especially useful if the link is to a new article, to draw people's attention to that, for people who keep track of pages on their watchlist, but not systematically of all new pages.
+{{TB|[[Wikisimpsons:Disambiguation|Disambiguating]] a wiki link. (e.g. changing <nowiki>[[PDF]] to [[Portable Document Format|PDF]]</nowiki>)}}
-|-
+{{TBT|''ft''}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''rv''
+{{TB|What follows gives the full added text, it does not make sense to open the article unless you want to see the text in context or want to make another edit.}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Reverted a previous edit (this short summary is sufficient only in the case of an obvious error or obvious vandalism)
+{{TBT|''cm''}}
-|-
+{{TB|A comment was added to this page. This is most commonly used on [[Help:Talk page|talk pages]].}}
-| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''see Talk''
+}}
 Avoid "-" (single hyphen) as separation sign, it gives confusion with the meaning "remove".

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-'''&larr; [[Help: Contents]]'''
+'''&larr; [[Help:Contents]]'''
-When editing an article on Wikisimpsons there is a small field labeled "Summary" under the main edit box.
+An '''edit summary''' is a summary of an edit you make. You can write it in the Summary box under an edit window.
 The text written here, up to 200 characters, will appear in italics on the ''Recent changes'' page and in the page revision history (see also below).  You should write a short summary of the changes you have introduced into the article.  In addition (or alternatively), the summary field could explain ''why'' the change to the article was made, in order to allay the concerns of other contributors (in the case of potentially controversial or confusing edits).  Longer explanations should go on the [[Help:talk page|talk page]]s.
 '''Always try to fill the summary.''' In the day-to-day operations, with a dozen (or hopefully more!) people all making changes at various times, it's better to have some summary of the changes rather than no summary at all.  The summary can help people decide whether they should go read all of the changes that were made in your edit, or whether it's not important enough.  (This would be in addition to the "minor edit" feature. See also [[Help: Editing]].)
-==Abbreviations==
+== Abbreviations ==
 Efficient contributors to Wikipedia have developed a number of abbreviations for the summary field: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary]
-{| border=1 align=center
+{| border="1" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
-|- bgcolor=#FFCC00
+! style="background-color: #FFD733; "|Abbreviation(s)
-! Abbreviation(s)
+! style="background-color: #FFD733; "|What it means
 |-
-| "+" or "-"
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| "+" or "-"
-| Addition or removal, see ''rm'' or ''remove''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Addition or removal, see ''rm'' or ''remove''
 |-
-| ''typo''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''typo''
-| Fixed typos (wags also use "tipo", "tyop", etc)
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Fixed typos (wags also use "tipo", "tyop", etc)
 |-
-| ''sp''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''sp''
-| Fixed spelling mistakes
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Fixed spelling mistakes
 |-
-| ''lk(s)'' or ''link(s)''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''lk(s)'' or ''link(s)''
-| Added link(s)
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Added link(s)
 |-
-| ''ext lk / link(s)''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''ext lk / link(s)''
-| Added external link(s)
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Added external link(s)
 |-
-| ''wikified''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''wikified''
-| Created links / converted markup, especially of new articles
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Created links / converted markup, especially of new articles
 |-
-| ''fmt'',&nbsp;&nbsp;''fm'',&nbsp;&nbsp;''formatting'', or ''MoS''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''fmt'',&nbsp;&nbsp;''fm'',&nbsp;&nbsp;''formatting'', or ''MoS''
-| Applied [[Wikisimpsons:Manual of Style|manual of style]] formatting
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Applied [[Wikisimpsons:Manual of Style|manual of style]] formatting
 |-
-| ''<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[other page]]</nowiki>''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[other page]]</nowiki>''
-| Made the page a redirect to <nowiki>[[other page]]</nowiki>
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Made the page a redirect to <nowiki>[[other page]]</nowiki>
 |-
-| ''copyedit''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''copyedit''
-| Miscellaneous copyediting
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Miscellaneous copyediting
 |-
-| ''<nowiki>[[name of other article]]</nowiki>''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''<nowiki>[[name of other article]]</nowiki>''
-| Added the link name of other article (maybe a bit of text too); this is especially useful if the link is to a new article, to draw people's attention to that, for people who keep track of pages on their watchlist, but not systematically of all new pages.
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Added the link name of other article (maybe a bit of text too); this is especially useful if the link is to a new article, to draw people's attention to that, for people who keep track of pages on their watchlist, but not systematically of all new pages.
 |-
-| ''rv''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''rv''
-| Reverted a previous edit (this short summary is sufficient only in the case of an obvious error or obvious vandalism)
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Reverted a previous edit (this short summary is sufficient only in the case of an obvious error or obvious vandalism)
 |-
-| ''see Talk''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''see Talk''
-| An explanation/discussion of this edit is on the article's [[Wikisimpsons:Talk page|talk page]].
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| An explanation/discussion of this edit is on the article's [[Wikisimpsons:Talk page|talk page]].
 |-
-| ''rm'' or ''remove''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''rm'' or ''remove''
-| Additions and removals are also sometimes abbreviated as "+" and "-" (e.g. "+official website link")
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Additions and removals are also sometimes abbreviated as "+" and "-" (e.g. "+official website link")
 |-
-| ''dup''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''dup''
-| Duplication, e.g. "-dup" or "rm dup"
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| Duplication, e.g. "-dup" or "rm dup"
 |-
-| ''disambig''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''disambig''
-| [[Wikisimpsons:Disambiguation|Disambiguating]] a wiki link.  (e.g. changing <nowiki>[[PDF]] to [[Portable Document Format|PDF]]</nowiki>)
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| [[Wikisimpsons:Disambiguation|Disambiguating]] a wiki link. (e.g. changing <nowiki>[[PDF]] to [[Portable Document Format|PDF]]</nowiki>)
 |-
-| ''ft''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''ft''
-| What follows gives the full added text, it does not make sense to open the article unless you want to see the text in context or want to make another edit.
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| What follows gives the full added text, it does not make sense to open the article unless you want to see the text in context or want to make another edit.
 |-
-| ''cm''
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| ''cm''
-| A comment was added to this page.  This is most commonly used on [[Help:Talk page|talk pages]].
+| style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFF4A7; "| A comment was added to this page. This is most commonly used on [[Help:Talk page|talk pages]].
 |}

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 '''&larr; [[Help: Contents]]'''
-When editing an article on WWWiki there is a small field labeled "Summary" under the main edit box.
+When editing an article on Wikisimpsons there is a small field labeled "Summary" under the main edit box.
 The text written here, up to 200 characters, will appear in italics on the ''Recent changes'' page and in the page revision history (see also below).  You should write a short summary of the changes you have introduced into the article.  In addition (or alternatively), the summary field could explain ''why'' the change to the article was made, in order to allay the concerns of other contributors (in the case of potentially controversial or confusing edits).  Longer explanations should go on the [[Help:talk page|talk page]]s.

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 ==Upload summary==
-When uploading an image, you can add an upload summary (see [[Help:Image description page|Image description page]]).  If the upload is the first for a specific file name (i.e. it's creating a new Image: page), then the upload summary will also serve as the image description until it is edited.  In all cases, the upload summary will be applied to the individual images that are uploaded.
+When uploading an image, you can add an upload summary.  If the upload is the first for a specific file name (i.e. it's creating a new Image: page), then the upload summary will also serve as the image description until it is edited.  In all cases, the upload summary will be applied to the individual images that are uploaded.
 {{Help}}
 [[Category: Help]]