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Screencast on how to edit a Wikipedia user page: transcript
A Wikipedia editor, introduced as Ich Du Nicht, demonstrates in a screencast how to edit a user page in May 2020. He covers logging in, opening the page, using the editing window, formatting text, adding an edit summary and publishing.
Key points
- You need to be logged in; the log in and log out button is at the top right of the page.
- Clicking your username opens your user page, and the edit button opens the editing window.
- The editor works like word processing software, with menu options for bold and italic text.
- Publish Changes is the big blue button on the right-hand side.
- A short edit summary makes it transparent to other Wikipedians why a change was made.
- To change your user page: open it, hit edit, enter your text and publish.
Chapters
Full transcript
0:00Hello, I'm Ich Du Nicht and today I will show you how to edit your user page. We start on Wikipedia's main page. As you can see, I'm already logged in. In case you're not logged in, you need to log in first. Log in and log out works over that button on the top of the page on the right hand side. so once you're logged in you can simply click on your username and this will open your user page as you can see my user page is empty at the moment in order to write something onto my page I hit the edit button this one and the new editing window will open so now I can write something and this works similar to any word processing software so I can just type into that box and if I want to write something in bold letters I can change
1:04that and also when I want to use italics so for bold I highlight the word bold in this case and when I go to that menu and choose bold if I want italics I highlight that section which I want to change go up in the menu to text style choose italic and there we are And in order to publish what I just entered, I hit the button Publish Changes on the right-hand side, the big blue button.
1:37Always when I edit a page in Wikipedia, I will be asked to make a short summary to give a description of what I have just changed. And that is a very useful instrument because it makes transparent to other Wikipedians why you made it change. and that means that they can better understand why change something so it's always a good idea to get used to editing this description box whenever you change something so in my case that was just a hello world edit and again I hit publish changes and there we go hello world world athletics this is what I've just written on my user page. So if you want to change your user page go to your user page, hit the edit button, enter your text and press publish.
Source and licence
Recording: File:Edituserpage.webm by Ichdunich (2020-05-20), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).
The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.