Help:Introduction to navigating Justapedia/All
 | This help page is a how-to guide. It details processes or procedures of some aspects of Justapedia's norms and practices. It is not one of Justapedia's policies or guidelines |
Justapedia is a very big place, It's articles are easy to find, but its policies and tips and tutorials seem like a wilderness and navigating through it can be a challenge.
Fortunately, this series of guides and help pages has already begun to help you find your way around.
This part of the tutorial will help you to get your bearings, show you how to find what you need for, and introduce you to a few of the most important pages.
Namespaces
</noinclude> Justapedia's pages are divided into namespaces. Each namespace (except the main article space) has a prefix that is followed by a colon at the start of page names.
| Namespaces | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject namespaces | Talk namespaces | ||
| 0 | (Main/Article) | Talk | 1 |
| 2 | User | User talk | 3 |
| 4 | Justapedia | Justapedia talk | 5 |
| 6 | File | File talk | 7 |
| 8 | MediaWiki | MediaWiki talk | 9 |
| 10 | Template | Template talk | 11 |
| 12 | Help | Help talk | 13 |
| 14 | Category | Category talk | 15 |
| 118 | Draft | Draft talk | 119 |
| 710 | [[mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler|]] | 711 | |
| 828 | Module | Module talk | 829 |
| Virtual namespaces | |||
| -1 | Special | ||
| -2 | Media | ||
Each page in each of these namespaces, except for Special, also has a corresponding Talk page for discussion.
Because their content has been drafted by the Justapedia Foundation most of the talk pages of special, template, policies, guidelines, and tutorials can only be edited by admins and trustees.
Any questions or suggestions on these topics can be made at The Exchange
Searching pages
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Depending on the Justapedia skin you are using (selected in your user preferences) the search box is at the top right or top left of every page. Start typing, and it will begin to suggest pages you might be looking for — you can click on one to go directly to that page. Alternatively, if you type in a complete page title and hit ↵ Enter, you'll be taken straight to that page.
If you type a word or phrase that isn't an article title and hit ↵ Enter, you will see a full search page, which lists articles where your search term occurs. You can also reach this page by clicking the magnifying glass, or by typing something into the search box, then clicking the "containing..." link at the bottom of the list of suggestions. For example, you might do this if you wanted to search for occurrences of the word "Fish" across Justapedia, rather than be taken straight to the article Fish.
The search page also allows you to limit your search to specific namespaces. You can choose a preset option (Content pages, Multimedia, Everything) or use the Advanced option to specify the namespace(s) you wish to search.
Categories
Another useful way to find pages is by browsing categories grouping related pages, which are listed at the bottom of a page. They form hierarchy trees from generalized topics to more specific ones, so pages should have only the most specific applicable categories. For instance, do not add [[Category:Musicians]] to an article already categorized under [[Category:Irish musicians]].
Page histories
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Every edit made to Justapedia is recorded and (with rare exceptions) is publicly viewable in a page's history.
To access it, click the "View history" tab at the top of the article.
Page histories consist of rows, each representing a past revision of the page. Each line contains various elements with information or tools related to that revision:
To see the difference between two revisions, adjust the radio buttons and then click Compare selected revisions.
Redirects and shortcuts
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'.
Useful links
What's on a page?
- At the top
Logged in users will also see some useful links at the top right of your screen:
- Your username takes you to your userpage, where you can add information about yourself.
- Talk is your user talk page, where people can leave messages for you.
- Sandbox is a page in your user space where you can experiment with editing without worrying that you will cause problems on an actual Justapedia page.
- Preferences allows you to change your password and customize your email and wiki software settings.
- Watchlist shows recent changes to pages you're watching (click the star at the top right of a page to watch it).
- Contributions has a list of all the edits you have made.
- Log out logs you out of your account.
- On the left
There's an additional set of useful links on the left side of each page:
- Help is the entry point for Justapedia's help pages.
- What links here shows you what other pages are linking to an article.
- Related changes lists any edits that have been made to pages that an article links to.
- Yet more useful links
There are a few other pages on Justapedia that are really handy to know about:
- Forums and help pages are listed at Justapedia:Help
- You can get more help by asking questions at The Lounge.
See also
