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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:".
List of shortcuts
Pages with single shortcuts
- Project shortcuts
- QOD - Quotes of the day
Pages with multiple shortcuts
- In the Star Trek Expanded Universe namespace:
- STEU:Shortcut: this page
- STEU:SHORT: this page
Creating a new shortcut
- To create your own shortcut:
- Type in the shortcut name in the search box. Hit "go".
- On the search page, click the hyperlink: "create this page".
- As all you are doing is creating a redirect page, type the following on the edit page:
- #REDIRECT [[article name]]
- In the summary box, input a reason for what you're doing.
- Example: created shortcut to article name
- 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.
- If everything is okay, save the page.
Then, on the page the shortcut points to:
- Click "edit the page". On the first line of the article, simply insert:
- {{shortcut|your shortcut}}
- After inserting that line, you should press the enter key, thus creating a carriage return. This makes the editing text much easier to read.
- Preview the page. Make any corrections necessary.
- Once everything looks good, click "this is a minor edit".
- Enter in a reason to the summary field, i.e.:
- added shortcut box
- Save the page.
Once done, add the listing to the above list of shortcuts on this page. And that should be all there is to it.