Introduction
Navigating Wikipedia
Namespaces
The different types of pages
Searching pages
Tricks to find what you want
Page histories
See past revisions
Redirects and shortcuts
Redirecting traffic
Useful links
Handy pages for editors
Summary
Review of what you've learned
Some pages on Wikipedia are
redirects — they don't have any content of their own, but just send you on to another page. For example
UK is a redirect to
United Kingdom. So, if you type UK
in the search box, it will take you directly to the article on the United Kingdom. (There will also be a note below the article title saying "Redirected from
UK".)
To create a redirect to a page:
#REDIRECT [[Destination]]
.Wikipedians often refer to internal Wikipedia pages by
shortcut names to make typing quicker. The Wikipedia
namespace prefix can also be further abbreviated as WP:
. These shortcut pages are just redirects to the target page.
For example,
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view can be written as
WP:NPOV
to link to it, or typed into the search bar. Shortcuts to a page are usually listed in a box in the top right of that page.
Introduction
Navigating Wikipedia
Namespaces
The different types of pages
Searching pages
Tricks to find what you want
Page histories
See past revisions
Redirects and shortcuts
Redirecting traffic
Useful links
Handy pages for editors
Summary
Review of what you've learned
Some pages on Wikipedia are
redirects — they don't have any content of their own, but just send you on to another page. For example
UK is a redirect to
United Kingdom. So, if you type UK
in the search box, it will take you directly to the article on the United Kingdom. (There will also be a note below the article title saying "Redirected from
UK".)
To create a redirect to a page:
#REDIRECT [[Destination]]
.Wikipedians often refer to internal Wikipedia pages by
shortcut names to make typing quicker. The Wikipedia
namespace prefix can also be further abbreviated as WP:
. These shortcut pages are just redirects to the target page.
For example,
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view can be written as
WP:NPOV
to link to it, or typed into the search bar. Shortcuts to a page are usually listed in a box in the top right of that page.