Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 7
Starting an article offline
There are Wikipedia editors who prefer to begin writing a new article "offline" using a text editor on their own local device prior to posting the content to Wikipedia.
In a nutshell, the article construction stages would follow this path:
- Write new article content offline.
- Post article into Userspace draft and improve.
- If you need help, ask at the Teahouse or Help desk.
- Submit your work to Articles for creation where your userspace draft is moved into draftspace for further review.
- Continue improving the draft article until it can be moved to Wikipedia's mainspace.
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