Wikipedia:Which editor?

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If you ask for help with a technical issue on Wikipedia (or one of its sibling projects), you may be asked which editor you are using.

Wikipedia has three primary editing tools:

• VisualEditor (a WYSIWYG interface, a little like a word processor)
• Source editor (lets you see and edit the underlying wiki markup codes)
• The mobile Wikipedia app

VisualEditor

VisualEditor has a toolbar that looks like this:

Source editor

One of the Source editors has a toolbar that looks like this:

There are at least two other source editors. One has no toolbar, and the other is a source editing mode that is part of the VisualEditor. See mw:Editor to determine which one you are using.

Mobile app

The editing interface in the official Android and iOS Wikipedia mobile app (seen here on Android) looks like this:

See also

• Help page on how to edit Wikipedia
• There are multiple source editors and multiple ways to edit on mobile devices. For more granular details, see MediaWiki disambiguation page listing all editors