Navigating Wikipedia

Key terms

User page 

This is where you can describe yourself, your interests and editing interests to other Wikipedians. You can also signal to others that you are a new user on this page. 

Click here to set one up

Sandbox

This is a place where you can work on material before you are reading to publish it for everyone to see. 

Here are some training resources. 

Watchlist 

This is your 'favourites' section on Wikipedia. It keeps track of articles that you are interested in. 

Edit 

The edit button will take you to the Visual editor which is similar to a word processor. Clicking on this button will allow you edit articles on Wikipedia!

Edit source is an older version of editing Wikipedia and uses Wiki-markup. We recommend to use Visual editor instead.

Talk Pages 

Talk pages are where editors can discuss improvements to articles. 

See our Talk Pages site.

Further Resources

• What's where on Wiki (pdf.)
• This is a resource you can use to enter a category name to see its contents as a tree structure.
• A useful resource for using talk pages.

© Ewan McAndrew and Hannah Rothmann, University of Edinburgh, 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.