Wikipedia:Editing the main page

Alternatively, you can edit the table-free version of the main page. Also see for more editable main pages.

Each section has its own guidelines that you should follow before editing it. These guidelines will be found on that section's talk pages, on , or on other guidelines pages.

Today's featured article, Today's featured picture, and the On This Day sections automatically update every midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The Today's featured list section currently only appears on Mondays and Fridays. The section is updated every twelve hours (approximately 00:00 and 12:00 UTC), while the section is usually updated in real time as needed.

Click the Main Page cache purge whenever a change has been made to any of the template pages displayed on the Main Page. This clears the Main Page's cache (located on the ) so that non-logged-in users can see the update.

The guidelines that were written for the old main page can be found at .

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