Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule
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This reading schedule is designed to assist editors in becoming familiar with Wikipedia:Manual of Style.
Benefits
Here are some ways in which you can benefit from this reading schedule.
- You can analyze how the style guidelines promote clarity and consistency in Wikipedia articles, and how they contribute to harmony among editors.
- There are many style guides.
- If you edit another language version of Wikipedia, then you can compare the guidelines for that language version with the guidelines for the English version.
- If you edit the English version of another Wikimedia project, then you can compare its guidelines with the guidelines for English Wikipedia. (See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Style guides on other Wikimedia projects.)
- If you use or have used a style guide of a university or a publishing company, then you can compare its guidelines with the guidelines for English Wikipedia.
- As you study each guideline, you can anticipate situations where you can apply it, and you can even contrive texts for practicing it in your own workspace.
- You can adopt a guideline, and devise search terms for finding errors needing correction. (Compare Wikipedia:Adopt-a-typo.) Alternatively, you can select articles (either at random or from lists or categories of your choice) and correct a variety of errors in each article.
Weeks
Current week: 33 Current weekday: 5
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style: introduction
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section organization
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: introduction and first four subsections
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: Calendar items; Animals, plants, and other organisms
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: Celestial bodies; Compass points; Institutions
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Ligatures and Abbreviations: first four "subsections"
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Abbreviations: last four "subsections" and Ampersand
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics: first five "subsections"
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics: last four "subsections"
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Non-breaking spaces
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Original wording
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Typographic conformity
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Quotations within quotations; Attribution; Linking
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Block quotations; non-English quotations
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Apostrophes
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: introduction and first four "subsections"
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: Reasons to prefer straight quotation marks and apostrophes (and double quotation marks)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: Names and titles
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: Punctuation inside or outside
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses: introduction
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses: Sentences and brackets
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses: Brackets and linking
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Ellipses
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Commas: introduction
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Commas: Serial commas
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Colons
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Semicolons
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens: "sub subsections" 1 and 2 and 3
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens: Multi-hyphenated items; Spacing; Image filenames and redirects; Non-breaking; Soft hyphens
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dashes: introduction; Punctuating a sentence (em or en dashes); Unspaced em dash; Spaced en dash
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dashes: "En dashes: other uses" and "Other dashes"
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Slashes
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation: Number signs; Terminal punctuation; Spacing
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation: Consecutive punctuation marks; Punctuation and footnotes; Punctuation and formulae
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates and time
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Numbers
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Currencies
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Units of measurement
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Common mathematical symbols
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Grammar and usage
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Vocabulary
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Bulleted and numbered lists
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Links
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Miscellaneous
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also: introduction; Guidance; Development; Other community standards
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also: Names; Capitalization; Language varieties; Non-English terms used in English
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also: Quotations in articles; Numbers, times, and dates; Lists; Punctuation guidance