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So, now that you have an account, you will see a set of links in the top right corner, mainly personal pages and settings. Clicking on your username will take you to your user page, which you can use as a profile, and ''Talk'' will take you to your messages page, where other editors can talk to you! But anyway, let's take a look at the article interface itself.
So, now that you have an account, you will see a set of links in the top right corner, mainly personal pages and settings. Clicking on your username will take you to your user page, which you can use as a profile, and ''Talk'' will take you to your messages page, where other editors can talk to you! But anyway, let's take a look at the article interface itself.


More specifically, at the tabs that you will find on top of any page:
More specifically, take a look at the tabs that you will find on top of most pages:


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There are several tabs here, but we are interested in two of them specifically. ''Discussion'' (the second one from the left) is the message board specific for that article. You can use it to discuss issues about the article with other editors. The other important tab is the ''Edit'' one, the fourth one from the left. Don't mind the ''Edit source'' one unless you have previous wiki-editing experience —whenever you want to edit a page, use the ''Edit'' tab. Alternatively, each section heading also has smaller ''edit | edit source'' links, which you can use if you want to edit a single section of an article.
There are several tabs here, but we are interested in two of them specifically. ''Discussion'' (the second one from the left) is the message board specific for that article. You can use it to discuss issues about the article with other editors. The other important tab is the ''Edit'' one, the fourth one from the left. Don't mind the ''Edit source'' one unless you have previous wiki-editing experience —whenever you want to edit a page, use the ''Edit'' tab. Alternatively, each section heading also has smaller ''edit | edit source'' links, which you can use if you want to edit a single section of an article.
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