Help:Creating new pages
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The ease of creating new pages is one of the major benefits of using a wiki.
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How to create a new page
Any editor can easily create a new page on this wiki. You may wish to first search for the title or topic of your page to make sure there is not already an existing similar page. All pages must have unique page names. You may also want to check to see what pages already exist first.
If you've searched for a page, haven't found one, and would like to create one with a new title:
- Type in the title of the page you want to create after the /index.php/ prefix (e.g. http://eldwiki.lib.ucdavis.edu/index.php/New_Page) where "New Page" is replaced by the title of the page you want to create.
- If the page does not exist, you'll get this message: "There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page."
- To create the page, click on "edit this page" or on the edit tab at the top of the page. You will be taken to a blank editing window.
- Type in the text you want and hit "save page" at the bottom (after putting in an appropriate edit summary).
That's it! You're done. Your page is created and will show up in Recent changes and special:Allpages. However, to make your page really useful, you still need to link to it from other relevant pages. For instance, if you've just created a page about humanities reference sources, make sure you place a link to it from other reference pages. It's up to you to build the web!
Moving pages
Occasionally, you'll create a page but then decide you actually want it at another page name. For instance, perhaps you've misspelled the page title accidentally. Or, you may decide to restructure or rename pages -- for instance, instead of calling a page "humanities encyclopedias" perhaps you want "humanities reference sources." While most editors do not have privileges to delete pages, what you can do is move pages to another page title.
Steps for moving:
- First, make sure the page title you want to move your page to does not already exist. If it does, you'll need to create a redirect (explained below) instead.
- Then, go to your old page. Click the "move" tab on the top (next to the edit tab).
- You'll be taken to a window where you can enter the new title as desired.
- Click the "move page" button. Leave "move associated talk page" checked.
- That's it! You're done. The software will automatically create a redirect from the old page to the new one (so links to the old page title will not break), and all content will be moved to the new page.
Redirects
A redirect is when a page title redirects to another page. Redirects can be very useful organizationally; for instance, you might think of my name as Ayers, Phoebe when I might think of it as Phoebe Ayers. A redirect placed on Ayers, Phoebe means that people visiting that page will automatically be taken to Phoebe Ayers instead. Think of it as an automated "see" reference.
Redirects are also useful when two pages that were formerly separate get merged together. In our example above, if there are two pages, one called humanities encyclopedias and one called humanities reference sources, you may want to combine the former with the latter. After all the content is combined into one page, you can create a redirect from the former page to the latter so no links pointing to the old page break and it's clear there's now only one page.
To create a redirect:
- Make sure that all the content from the page you're redirecting is merged in with the new page
- Delete all the content from the body of the old page
- type the following in the body of the old page:
- #REDIRECT[[new page name]]
After you hit save, you'll see a redirect note; in the future when you visit the page, you'll automatically be taken to the new page title instead.
- Redirects can be undone, and the page history is preserved, so don't worry if you make a mistake!
- To link to a page (or redirect to a page) on a departmental wiki, see the linking table below.
Subpages
- You can create a subpage to any page by simply adding a slash and then the subpage title, as follows:
- /wiki/My Page/subpage
- Then create the page, as described above.
- To create an internal link to this new subpage, link the whole thing, after wiki/ -- [[My Page/subpage]]
- Subpages are useful for creating draft pages, particularly in your own "userspace" when you want extra pages linked off of your userpage. However, for general purposes subpages are not recommended when you can use a regular page title instead -- they are harder to find and search.
