Promoting Quickstart
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In a nutshell...
Versions of a page usually fall into one of three categories:
Main
Edited
Newly Edited
Versions begin as Newly Edited. They are usually promoted to Edited after 3 days. If they are good, they can be promoted to Main.
Promotion from Newly Edited to Edited
You create a Newly Edited version when you create a page or edit an existing page. After 3 days it will be promoted to be an Edited version, presuming the page wasn't identified as spam or archived (see Spam or Archived below). When you edit the version again, the 3-day count starts over.Promotion from Edited to Main
After an Edited version can be promoted to the Main version after it has been suggested (see Suggesting as Main below). Once a version has been promoted to main, if you edit it again the main version remains in place while a new newly edited version is created. You can then, of course, suggest it should replace the main version.More detail about versions
Main - These are the most prominent versions. There is only one main version of each page (whereas there can be several Newly Edited and Edited versions of a page). Usually, Edited and Newly Edited versions should be created with the goal of becoming a main version.
Edited - These versions are available to search engines and directly linked to.
Newly Edited - Since new edits could be spam (promotional or offensive content) they are hidden from search engines, and not directly linked to. However, they are publicly viewable right away.
Suggesting as Main
If you think one of your versions (or someone else's version) should become the main version, you should suggest it. To do so, go to the version and click "page" (on the right) and then click "suggest as main". This will cause it to be reviewed, and usually made the main page within a day or so.There's only one main version
There's only one main version of any page, so when a version gets promoted to main it replaces the current main version (if one exists). To replace an existing main version, a version must be an improvement to it. It normally shouldn't remove anything important from the current main version (unless it has been moved to another page). Also, there shouldn't be redundancy with other main versions (although displaying the same information in different ways is acceptable).What if I like my version but it doesn't make sense for it to be the main version?
Consider changing the name of your version to better reflect what is on it. For example, if you add a table about egg rolls to the Chines page your version won't likely get promoted to main. However, if you create a Chinese Food page and put your egg rolls table there, it will likely get promoted to main. To help people find your page, you'll probably want to create a link from the Chinese page to your Chinese Food page (see Linking Quickstart).Merging in the good parts from multiple versions
See Sharing Quickstart for information about merging parts of another version into your version (you may wish to do this before suggesting a page as the main version).Spam or archived
Users can suggest that a version is spam or should be archived. This is done by going to the version and clicking "page" (on the right) and then clicking "spam" or "archive".
Spam - Promotional or offensive content. Help us identify spam so we can delete it.
Archived - Versions not likely to be useful to users in general, but aren't bad enough to be deleted.
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