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Summarizing your work

If you make anything other than a minor edit to an article, it helps to use the edit summary. Edit summaries are visible in the page history, watchlists, and on Recent changes, so they help other users keep track of what's happening to a page. If you use section editing, the summary box is filled in with the section heading by default (in gray text). You can also put links to articles in the edit summary - just put double brackets around [[the article title]] like you would normally. The summary is limited to 200 characters, so many people use common abbreviations, such as sp for correcting spelling mistakes.

Namespaces

Pages on NSwiki can have the same names, but different namespaces. A namespace is a prefix in front of the name. A name with no prefix is in the (default) article namespace. For instance, the Talk: prefix is for pages discussing articles; the NSwiki: prefix is for pages about Wikipedia's policies, FAQs, etc. Other namespaces unsuitable for general articles include Category:, User:, Template:, and Special:.