Help:Starting a new page
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There are several ways to start a new page.
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Using Wikilinks
MediaWiki makes it very easy to link wiki pages using a standard syntax (see Links). If you (or anyone else) creates a link to an article that doesn't exist yet, the link will be coloured red, like this.
Clicking a red link, will take you to the edit page for the new article. Simply type your text, click save and the new page will be created.
Once the page has been created, the link will change from red to blue (purple for pages you've visited) indicating that the article now exists.
Using the URL
You can use the wiki's URL for creating a new page. The URL to an article of the wiki is usually something like this:
http://www.example.net/index.php/ARTICLEorhttp://www.example.net/wiki/ARTICLE
If you replace ARTICLE with the name of the page you wish to create, you will be taken to a blank page which indicates that no article of that name exists yet. Clicking the "edit" page tab at the top of the page will take you to the edit page for that article, where you can create the new page by typing your text, and clicking submit.
From the search page
If you search for a page that doesn't exist (using the search box and 'go' button on the left of the page) then you will be provided with a link to create the new page. (Note that this technique doesn't work if you use the 'search' button).
Using the Inputbox extension
| Tip for wiki admins: You need to download and install the "inputbox extension" for this method to work. |
If the Inputbox extension is available on the wiki you can start a new page by typing in your article's name and clicking the "create article" button, as in the example below.
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<inputbox> type=create width=45 </inputbox> |
Create redirects to your new page
Don't forget to setup redirects when you create a page. If you think another person may search for the page you've created by using a different name or spelling, please create the proper redirect(s). See Help:Redirects
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| Tip for wiki admins: If desired, once you create your new page, you should protect the page and allow only the type of users you would like to edit the page. |
External links
| MetaWiki: Help:Starting a new page |
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English
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Syntax
{{{Languages|PageName}}}
- PageName (optional) - the name of the page to display language links for. If omitted then the English version of the current page is used. This parameter can normally be omitted, as it is only required if you want to link to a page other than the one you place the template on, which is very uncommon. If this parameter is used on a sub-page make sure you supply the root name, not the full page name (e.g. on MediaWiki/fr you would need to use
{{{Languages|MediaWiki}}}and not{{{Languages|MediaWiki/fr}}}).
Usage
The template should only be placed on pages that exist in more than one language, and it should be placed in the same location on each translation of the page.
The English version of a page is always the main version, with all other languages as sub-pages, named using the appropriate language code (see below).
For example, on the Main Page you would include the text {{{Languages}}}, both on Main Page itself, and on each of its language sub-pages. The template automatically creates links to any language sub-pages that exist, e.g. Main Page/ja<tt>, <tt>Main Page/fr, and ignores non-existant languages.
See Project:Language policy for further details about translating pages.
Supported languages
This shows you the name of each language's sub-page (using Main Page as an example). Other languages may be added easily as necessary. Please use the appropriate prefix, as used on Wikipedia when adding a new language. Please do not add languages for which no pages exist yet, as this will increase the time needed to include the template without adding any benefit (languages are only displayed to the user when the relevant page exists).
The link on the language names goes to the Wikipedia in that language. If no Wikipedia in your language exists, do not add pages in that language to MediaWiki.org! This wiki is not the place for language advocacy - please go through the correct channels, and once your language has a Wikipedia then please return to add content here.
| Page Name | Language |
|---|---|
| Main Page | English |
| Main Page/ar | Arabic |
| Main Page/br | Breton |
| Main Page/ca | Catalan |
| Main Page/cs | Czech |
| Main Page/de | German |
| Main Page/el | Greek |
| Main Page/es | Spanish |
| Main Page/fa | Persian |
| Main Page/fi | Finnish |
| Main Page/fr | French |
| Main Page/he | Hebrew |
| Main Page/hu | Hungarian |
| Main Page/id | Indonesian |
| Main Page/it | Italian |
| Main Page/ja | Japanese |
| Main Page/ko | Korean |
| Main Page/mr | Marathi |
| Main Page/nl | Nederlands |
| Main Page/no | Norwegian |
| Main Page/oc | Occitan |
| Main Page/pl | Polish |
| Main Page/pt | Portugese |
| Main Page/ro | Romanian |
| Main Page/ru | Russian |
| Main Page/sq | Albanian |
| Main Page/sr | Serbian |
| Main Page/sv | Swedish |
| Main Page/th | Thai |
| Main Page/vi | Vietnamese |
| Main Page/yue | Cantonese |
| Main Page/zh | Chinese |
| Main Page/zh-hans | Chinese (Simplified) |
| Main Page/zh-hant | Chinese (Traditional) |
Example
Here is how the language bar looks on the MediaWiki page: Languages
