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<p>1 revision: Import helps</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{h:h|editor toc}}<br /> ==Dummy edit ==<br /> A '''dummy edit''' is a change in wikitext that has little or no effect on the rendered page, but saves a useful dummy edit summary. The dummy edit summary can be used for text messaging, and correcting a previous edit summary such as an accidental marking of a previous edit as &quot;minor&quot; (see [[Help:Minor edit]]). Text messaging via the edit summary is a way of communicating with other editors. Text messages may be seen by dotted IP number editors who don't have a user talk page, or editors who haven't read the subject's talk page, if it exists. Each edit summary can hold 250 bytes; the input box for an edit summary is limited to 200 characters. A dummy edit should be checkboxed &quot;minor&quot; by logged-in editors (except when the purpose of the dummy edit is to correct a previous edit accidentally marked &quot;minor&quot;).<br /> <br /> :Examples: <br /> :*''Changing the number of [[w:newline|newline]]s in the edit text.'' Changing a space to a line break in running text or vice versa, for example, or adding or removing a single blank line after a header. Adding an extra blank line where there was none may add a paragraph break, which is not a dummy edit. Adding newlines to the end of the article will not save as a dummy edit (see below).<br /> :*''Changing the number of spaces.'' Changing one space character to two or more (or vice versa) also has no effect on the rendered page. Multiple space characters always render as a single space, unless the line begins with a leading space.<br /> <br /> == Null edit ==<br /> {{seealso|w:Wikipedia:Purge}}<br /> {{seealso|w:Wikipedia:Bypass your cache}}<br /> <br /> A '''null edit''' occurs if a page save is made when the wikitext is not changed, which is useful for refreshing the cache. A null edit will not record an edit, make any entry in the page history, in Recent Changes, etc., and the edit summary is discarded.<br /> <br /> ===Effects and purpose===<br /> The key purpose of null edits is that they update category pages for categories transcluded via templates.<br /> <br /> If a transcluded template has added or removed a category since it was last transcluded then purge will not update the category page, but a null edit will – see [[Help:Category#Using templates to populate categories]].<br /> <br /> ===Examples===<br /> ;Opening the edit window and saving: A section edit save is sufficient, but can sometimes result in a dummy edit.<br /> ;Adding newlines only to the end of the article and saving: This is also a null edit.<br /> ;Clicking the edit button and putting some text in the edit summary: This is also a null edit.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Help:Category#Using templates to populate categories]]<br /> <br /> {{h:f|enname=Dummy edit}}</div>

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