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 Re: arabic wikipedia
In the arabic wikipedia with Mozilla it's terribly difficult to do this: you first have to type the closing brackets, then the word and the opening brackets (at the moment I type in a text editor first and then copy text over in the edit box).
But I am not sure, if this is a bug, because the people on the hebrew wikipedia seem to be able to edit without problems.
I came to the German wikipedia one and a half year ago when it had about 1000 badly written articles (now it's 50000).
http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2004/February/msg00030.html   (632 words)

  
 file manager information
A file manager is a software tool that provides an user interface to work with computer files.  The most common operations on files are Create, Open, Edit, View, Play, Rename, Move,Copy, Delete, Attributes.
Your search for 'file manager' seem to be correctly spelled.
Latest version of article is located at wikipedia.org site.
http://www.vsearchmedia.com/file_manager.html   (100 words)

  
 Wikibooks:Staff lounge - Wikibooks
One advantage I've found to writing as a wikibook is that I can copy material from the wikipedia to help me. Though I am writing lots of new material, some of the annoying/well known details don't get in my way (e.g., who can get excited about writing the mathematical definition of a total order?).
You can probably use a macro to do the conversion for you, or export to html then do a search and replace then manual edit, or export to a text file then modify, etc. I would suggest first focusing on the content, then worry about the formatting once the book is done.
The real question here is what boilerplate request-letters to provide contributors to ensure we find out (1) whether they mind their content being edited, (2) whether they want attribution, or want no connection at all with such edited content, (3) whether any changes (on their end) to slowly-changing content can be propagated to WM projects...
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Staff_Lounge   (100 words)

  
 Wikipedia:Tutorial (Editing)/sandbox: Web Search Results from Answers.com
just copy and paste it from the article's edit page into the sandbox.
There are many pages on editing a wiki in the wikipedia - we use the exact same
If you want to experiment, you can play around in the sandbox.
http://www.answers.com/Wikipedia%3ATutorial+(Editing)%2Fsandbox   (100 words)

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