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You can find the latest Coronavirus legislation guidance [[Coronavirus Legislation|here]].
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Welcome to the legislation.gov.uk community editorial wiki. It's where you can find editorial documentation and guidance related to revising legislation.  
  
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== Welcome ==
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Welcome to the legislation.gov.uk community editorial wiki.  It's where you can find editorial documentation and guidance and where you can share your knowledge and experiences to help others. Adding examples of the more unusual or challenging editorial tasks, and how you've solved them, for example, will really bring pages to life and make them a useful tool for others.
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You can browse the wiki's four main sections, set out below, or you can use the [[Main_Page#Search Tips:|wiki search]] to find the specific information you're looking for.
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!colspan="2"| <strong>Revising Legislation</strong>
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|rowspan="2"|Before you start Editorial Update:
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| [[Editorial_Update/Introduction_to_Editorial_Update | Introduction to Editorial Update]]
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| [[Editorial_Update/Starting_Update_Tasks | Starting Update Tasks]] and [[Editorial_Update/Affected_Extent_Research | Affected Extent Research]]
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|rowspan="3"|Carrying out Editorial Update:
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| [[Editorial_Update/Textual_Amendments | Textual amendments]]
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| [[Editorial_Update/Non-textual_Amendments | Non-Textual amendments]]
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| [[Coronavirus_Legislation | Coronavirus Legislation]]
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|rowspan="6"|Find more detail on…
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| [[Editorial_Update/Annotation_Conventions | Annotation Conventions]]
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| [[Editorial_Update/Manual_Amendments | Manual Amendments]]
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| [[Editorial_Update/Update_Troubleshooting | Update Troubleshooting]]
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|[[Editorial_Update/Commencing_Amendments | Incremental amendments]]
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You will find the search bar at the top of the page. For best results use double quotes around a phrase. The search will produce a list of pages containing your search term: click on one of the page links and then search that page using ‘CTRL F’ to find your search term on that page.
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<span class="main-page-q-title">Introduction to Revising Legislation</span>
 
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If you are a new editor, have recently joined us to help update legislation, or are simply interested in how we produce the revised content on legislation.gov.uk then this section will give you a good overview of our processes.
 
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This section sets out the core principles of our editorial process. It's useful if you are a new editor, or if you're helping us to update legislation and want to understand the high level principles before you start doing the more detailed update work.
 
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This section is mostly for our in-house editorial team who carry out the preparation tasks needed before legislation can be updated. This section covers the 'identify effects' and 'record effects' work that the team does.
 
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This section is useful for all editors, including those of you who have recently joined us to help update legislation. It is where you will find out how to carry out all of the different update tasks.  
 
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Revision as of 13:57, 2 October 2020

Welcome

Welcome to the legislation.gov.uk community editorial wiki. It's where you can find editorial documentation and guidance related to revising legislation.

Using the Wiki

You can browse the wiki's four main sections, set out below, or you can use the wiki search to find the specific information you're looking for.

Revising Legislation
Introduction to UK Legislation Introduction to Revising Legislation
Editorial Principles
Preparation Tasks
Editorial Update
Before you start Editorial Update: Introduction to Editorial Update
Starting Update Tasks and Affected Extent Research
Carrying out Editorial Update: Textual amendments
Non-Textual amendments
Coronavirus Legislation
Find more detail on…
Annotation Conventions
Manual Amendments
Update Troubleshooting
XMetaL and XML tagging
Specific amendment types:
‘Amendment to earlier affecting provision’
Blanket amendments
'Coming into force’
Incremental amendments
Limited extent amendments
Lists
Renumbering provisions
Tables

Search Tips:

You will find the search bar at the top of the page. For best results use double quotes around a phrase. The search will produce a list of pages containing your search term: click on one of the page links and then search that page using ‘CTRL F’ to find your search term on that page.

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