Help:Introduction to navigating Justapedia/5
Introduction
Navigating Justapedia
Namespaces
The different types of pages
Searching pages
Tricks to find what you want
Page histories
See past revisions
Redirects and shortcuts
Redirecting traffic
Useful links
Handy pages for editors
Summary
Review of what you've learned
Redirects
Some pages on Justapedia are redirects — they don't have any content of their own, but just send you on to another page. For example UK is a redirect to United Kingdom. So, if you type UK in the search box, it will take you directly to the article on the United Kingdom. (There will also be a note below the article title saying "Redirected from UK".)
To create a redirect to a page:
- Via wiki markup: Click the
button and type the destination page or use the code #REDIRECT [[Destination]]. - Via VisualEditor: Use the
menu and then click 
Page settings to choose a destination page.
Do not create redirect pages unnecessarily. Only create a redirect if it is genuinely a search term a reader would use when looking for an article.
Shortcuts
Editors often refer to internal Justapedia pages by shortcut names to make typing quicker. The Justapedia namespace prefix can also be further abbreviated as JP:. These shortcut pages are just redirects to the target page.
For example, Justapedia:Neutral point of view can be written as Justapedia:NPOV to link to it, or typed into the search bar. Shortcuts to a page are usually listed in a box in the top right of that page.
Tip: Shortcut codes are useful but they can often serve to confuse users who have not consigned hundreds of them to memory. We often refer to them as 'Alphabet soup'.