Star Trek Expanded Universe:Shortcuts

Shortcuts are an easy means of accessing (or linking) to pages within this wiki. They will often be a few (3 to 5) characters in length, and will redirect a user to an article.

Shortcuts are used only for often-referenced articles, or namespaces starting with "Star Trek Expanded Universe:".

Pages with Single Shortcuts

 * Disambiguations


 * Project Shortcuts
 * QOD - Quotes of the Day

Pages with Multiple Shortcuts

 * Those in the Star Trek Expanded Universe namespace:
 * STEUD:Shortcut: this page
 * STEUD:SHORT: this page

Creating a new shortcut
To create your own shortcut:


 * 1) Type in the shortcut name in the search box.  Hit "Go".
 * 2) On the search page, click the hyperlink: "create this page".
 * 3) As all you are doing is creating a redirect page, type the following on the edit page:
 * 4) *  #REDIRECT article name 
 * 5) In the summary box, input a reason for what you're doing.
 * 6) * Example: created shortcut to article name
 * 7) Preview the changes.  Make sure the hyperlink is blue, not red. Remember that red links are "broken", because the article doesn't exist yet under that title.
 * 8) If everything is okay, save the page.

Then, on the page the shortcut points to:


 * 1) Click "edit the page".  On the first line of the article, simply insert:
 * 2) After inserting that line, you should press the Enter key, thus creating a carriage return. This makes the editing text much easier to read.
 * 3) Preview the page. Make any corrections as necessary.
 * 4) Once everything looks good, click "this is a minor edit".
 * 5) Enter in a reason to the summary field, i.e.:
 * 6) * added the shortcut box
 * 7) Save the page.
 * 1) Save the page.

Once done, add the listing to this page (STEUD:Shortcuts).

And that should be all there is to it.