Help:Editing

CheatEngine is a wiki, meaning that anyone can easily edit any unprotected page, and save those changes immediately to that page, making the alterations visible to every other reader. You do not even need to register to do this. After your first edit, you will be a CheatEngine editor!

Note: You can use the sandbox to experiment with page editing.

Introduction
Editing most Cheat Engine Wiki pages is easy. Simply click on the "edit this page" tab at the top of a Cheat Engine Wiki page (or on a section-edit link). This will bring you to a new page with a text box containing the editable text of the original page. When you are finished with an edit, you should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box. You may use shorthand to describe your changes, as described in the legend. To see how the page looks with your edits, press the "Show preview" button. To see the differences between the page with your edits and the previous version of the page, press the "Show changes" button. If you're satisfied with what you see, be bold and press the "Save page" button. Your changes will immediately be visible to all CheatEngine users. You can also click on the "Discussion" tab to see the corresponding talk page, which contains comments about the page from other CheatEngine users. Click on the "new section" tab to start a new section, or edit the page in the same way as an article page.

You should also remember to sign your messages on talk pages and some special-purpose project pages with four tildes ( ~ ), but you should not sign edits you make to regular articles. In page history, the MediaWiki software automatically keeps track of which user makes each change.

Minor edits
A check to the "minor edit" box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the version with your edit and the previous version: typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, rearranging of text without modifying content, etc. A minor edit is a version that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. The "minor edit" option is one of several options available only to registered users.

Major edits
All editors are encouraged to be bold, but there are several things that a user can do to ensure that major edits are performed smoothly. Before engaging in a major edit, a user should consider discussing proposed changes on the article discussion/talk page. During the edit, if doing so over an extended period, the tag can reduce the likelihood of an edit conflict. Once the edit has been completed, the inclusion of an edit summary will assist in documenting the changes. These steps will all help to ensure that major edits are well received by the CheatEngine community.

A major edit should be reviewed to confirm that it is consensual to all concerned editors. Therefore, any change that affects the meaning of an article is major (not minor), even if the edit is a single word.

There are no necessary terms to which you have to agree when doing major edits, but the recommendations above have become best practice. If you do it your own way, the likelihood of your edits being reedited may be higher.

Occasionally your browser will crash. When doing a large edit it is suggested you copy the code of the article you are working on and placing it in a text editor (preferably one without formatting, such as MS Notepad) periodically. This ensures that in the case of a browser crash you will not lose your work. It may also be a good idea to save the page after performing a substantial amount of work before adding additional content to the article.

Wiki markup
Wiki markup is the language you use to format a CheatEngine page; please see Editing for details on it, and Wikitext examples for a longer list of the possibilities of Wikitext.

Links and URLs
The anchor element,, is not allowed. The following are used instead:. See the table below.

Images
Only images that have been uploaded to CheatEngine can be used. To upload images, use the upload page. You can find the uploaded image on the image list.


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See the CheatEngine's image use policy as a guideline used on CheatEngine.

For further help on images, including some more versatile abilities, see the topic on Extended image syntax.

Headings
For a heading, put it on a separate line. A level-two heading, the highest level editors use in an article, for example:

== Introduction ==

Subheadings use '===', '====', and so on, down to level-six.

Level-one headings are automatically generated for the articles title, which is not available in the edit box.

Character formatting
(see also: Chess symbols in Unicode)

No or limited formatting—showing exactly what is being typed
A few different kinds of formatting will tell the Wiki to display things as you typed them—what you see, is what you get!

Invisible text (comments)
It's uncommon, but on occasion acceptable, to add a hidden comment within the text of an article. The format is this:

Table of contents
At the current status of the wiki markup language, having at least four headers on a page triggers the table of contents (TOC) to appear in front of the first header (or after introductory sections). Putting anywhere forces the TOC to appear at that point (instead of just before the first header). Putting anywhere forces the TOC to disappear. See also Compact TOC for alphabet and year headings.

Tables
There are two ways to build tables:
 * in special Wiki-markup (see Table)
 * with the usual HTML elements: &lt;table&gt;, &lt;tr&gt;, &lt;td&gt; or &lt;th&gt;.

For the latter, and a discussion on when tables are appropriate, see When to use tables.

Variables
(See also Variable)

NUMBEROFARTICLES is the number of pages in the main namespace which contain a link and are not a redirect, in other words number of articles, stubs containing a link, and disambiguation pages.

CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN is the genitive (possessive) grammatical form of the month name, as used in some languages; CURRENTMONTHNAME is the nominative (subject) form, as usually seen in English.

In languages where it makes a difference, you can use constructs like to convert a word from the nominative case to some other case. For example, means the same as.

Templates
The MediaWiki software used by CheatEngine has support for templates. This means standardized text chunks (such as boilerplate text), can be inserted into articles. For example, typing stub will appear as "This article is a stub. You can help CheatEngine by expanding it." when the page is saved. See Template messages for the complete list. Other commonly used templates are: disambig for disambiguation pages and sectstub like an article stub but for a section. There are many subject-specific stubs for example: Geo-stub, Hist-stub, and Linux-stub. For a complete list of stubs see Stub types.