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Getting started: Basic tasks

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Some of the typical editing and formatting tasks you can try out to begin with are:

• Bolding and italicizing text
• Creating headers
• Editing subsections
• Creating bulleted and numbered lists
• Creating links
• Creating references
• Starting a sandbox page

You should also familiarize yourself with:

• The distinctions among article pages, talk pages and user pages
• The use of talk pages