WikiLang/WikiLang:Introduction



''' What is WikiLang? '''

Wikilang is a free project, written collaboratively by the people who use it, to document, share, teach and record all languages, including endangered and dead languages. It is based on [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki], a type of website called "wiki" designed to make collaboration easy. Everybody can contribute to Wikilang.

For a more detailed account of the project, see About Wikilang.

How you can contribute

Don't be afraid to edit – everybody can edit almost every page and is encouraged to be bold! You can improve every pages to make them better by adding content or by correcting spelling and grammar mistakes.

Remember – you can't break Wikilang; all edits can be reversed, fixed or improved later. Wikilang is allowed to be imperfect. So go ahead, edit an article and help make Wikilang the best information source about languages on the Internet!

Why not try out the editor right now?
 * 1) [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Sandbox&action=edit Click here] to edit the sandbox, a place to make test edits. (If there is already some text there, add to the end of the text.)
 * 2) Type some text.
 * 3) Click ' to test your changes, or ' when you're happy with the way it looks.
 * Note that saving the page will make the text publicly visible, but previewing it won't.

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