MediaWiki User Guide: Starting a new page

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Here is how to start a new page. You might also want to learn about:

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General principles

  • Search to see whether someone has written a similar page before you start one yourself.
  • Start a new page from a "red link" that is already on an index page. Links to pages that don't exist yet appear as "red links." See below for more.
  • Review the naming conventions of the project you are working in before naming a new page or setting up a new index page.

Ways to start a new page

  1. Start a page from an existing link
  2. Start a page by editing the URL
  3. Start a page from the sandbox
  4. Start a new page from an index (mandatory for pages to function)

Starting a page from an existing link

To start a new page, you can start from a link to the title of the new page. As you're reading through Wikibooks pages, you'll see clickable links to pages that haven't been written yet (like this:Sample article title note this is not an actual functioning link). Links to unwritten pages appear in red (if you are logged in you can change this to a small question mark using the preferences). Click on the link, and you'll arrive at a page that says:

You've followed a link to a page that doesn't exist yet.
To create the page, start typing in the box below:

Just start typing your article in the edit-box. When you're finished, click the "show preview" button to check what the page will look like first and to check that you haven't made any errors. Then click the "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

Creating links to other pages

While you are editing some existing page, if a word or phrase you are typing strikes you as if it ought to have an encyclopedia article of its own linked from here, just put it in double square brackets, [[en:like this]]. We call that "wikifying" the text. When you save the present page, that word will magically link to the Wikipedia article by the same name.

Starting a page by editing the URL

One of the easiest ways to start a new page is to enter something like the following into your browser as a page address:

http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_page_title

Replacing "Sample_page_title" with whatever you want the page to be called. For example, to create an page about frumpysnarf, type:

http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frumpysnarf

This will bring up a template page that informs you that there is currently no text in the page yet. So, click on the "Edit" link at the top of that page, and presto! you are now editing your brand new page. Your careful attention to accuracy and neutrality will be greatly appreciated, of course.

Start a page from the sandbox

Another way is to use the sandbox!

  • Edit the sandbox, then create a new link.
  • Then create/edit your new page by clicking on the link and writing new text.

Note: The sandbox is periodically erased, so remember to bookmark the page(s) you have created, in order to edit them again in the future. If you are a registered user, it will also appear under "My contributions" in the Quickbar.

Further info

When creating pages it is also good practice to run the text through a spell checker before submitting. You may find it more convenient to take a copy of the original page, work on it, then paste the edited copy back in.

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