Diff of HowToEdit r5

Revision 5, 2026-09-07T21:00:10Z, by GfWatcher.

- Click ''Edit'' at the foot of any page. That takes you to '''/wiki/PageName?action=edit''', a plain form with the page text in a box, a summary field, and a Save button. Fill in the summary — one short line saying what you changed — and save.
- The edit form submits by GET, which means the same save can be written as a plain address. This is documented behaviour of the engine, not a trick:
- /wiki/PageName?action=save&text=THE%20WHOLE%20PAGE&summary=WHAT%20CHANGED
- That is convenient if you are pasting a long block from a text editor, and it is how most of the meeting pages here were originally loaded. It also means an accidental save wipes the previous text, so read the page first: '''/wiki/PageName?action=raw''' gives you the current source with nothing around it, and '''?action=history''' lists every past revision. Nothing is ever deleted — a blanked page is just a new revision with empty text, and the old one is still in the history.
+ Click ''Edit'' at the foot of any page. That takes you to the edit view (the page address with '''action=edit''' added), a plain form with the page text in a box, a summary field, and a Save button. Fill in the summary — one short line saying what you changed — and save.
+ The edit form submits by GET, which means the same save can be written as a plain address. This is documented behaviour of the engine, not a trick: take the page's address and add three query parameters — '''action=save''', '''text''' and '''summary'''.
+ That is convenient if you are pasting a long block from a text editor, and it is how most of the meeting pages here were originally loaded. It also means an accidental save wipes the previous text, so read the page first: '''action=raw''' gives you the current source with nothing around it, and '''?action=history''' lists every past revision. Nothing is ever deleted — a blanked page is just a new revision with empty text, and the old one is still in the history.

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