Wikipedia:Which editor?
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If you ask for help with a technical issue on Wikipedia (or one of its sibling projects), you may be asked which editor you are using.
Wikipedia has three primary editing tools:
- VisualEditor (a WYSIWYG interface, a little like a word processor)
- Source editor (lets you see and edit the underlying wiki markup codes)
- The mobile Wikipedia app
VisualEditor
[edit]VisualEditor has a toolbar that looks like this:
Source editor
[edit]One of the Source editors has a toolbar that looks like this:
There are at least two other source editors. One has no toolbar, and the other is a source editing mode that is part of the VisualEditor. See mw:Editor to determine which one you are using.
Mobile app
[edit]The editing interface in the official Android and iOS Wikipedia mobile app (seen here on Android) looks like this:
See also
[edit]- Help page on how to edit Wikipedia
- MediaWiki page listing all editors
- There are multiple source editors and multiple ways to edit on mobile devices. For more granular details, see mw:Editor