Help:Edit summary

An edit summary allows you to give a brief description of the changes you have made to the page. They should be used for every edit, except when creating a new entry, as they are exceedingly useful. (Do not use them when creating a new page: the software will fill in a useful edit summary automatically.) They are limited by the software to 255 characters.

Edit summaries help

• Those who are looking at a page's history to work out how the page has changed over time.
• People who have the page Watchlisted to see whether they are interested in your change.
• Anyone watching recent changes to get an impression of what sort of edits are going on.

A good edit summary

• Contains a brief description of all the changes that were made.
• May include a brief reason for making the edit.
• Does not include excessive justification for the edit.

Abbreviations include

• ISO 639-1 or ISO 639-2 language codes.
• The name of any templates used.
• any abbreviation listed at Wiktionary:Glossary or Appendix:Glossary
• and...

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iw Adding a link to another Wiktionary L[x] Altering a heading to be at level [x] lk Link pron Pronounciation re reply rm / rem Removed rv(v) Undoing the last change (it was vandalism) sc Adding something in the right script sp Correcting spelling tr(ans(l)) Translations tr(anslit) Transliteration usex Adding a usage example wp Added a link to Wikipedia