Manual:Redirects

Redirects are used to

What is a redirect?

A redirect is a technique to automatically forward users from one page name to another. They can be useful if a particular article is referred to by multiple names, or has alternative punctuation, capitalization or spellingsIf you redirect a page that has content, the user will not see the content of the redirected page, but only the content of the target page.

When to use a redirect

Pages should be are usually redirected in the following cases:

• abbreviations and
• synonyms
• from less used expressions to often used expressions

You may start a new page with the name you want to direct from. You can also use an existing page that you are making inactive as a page by going to that page and using the "edit" tab at the top. In either case, you will be inserting the following code at the very first text position of the Edit window for the page

• duplicate content
• spelling variants
• plural/singular
• renaming/moving a page

How to redirect a page

With Visual editing

1. Go to Page settings:
   
2. In the dialog window, activate the checkbox "Redirect this page to" and enter the name of the target page:
3. Click "Apply changes"

With Source editing

At the beginning of the page, insert the redirect instruction:

                #REDIRECT [[pagepagename youof want to forward to]]
            

In the wiki code view there is a button that helps you creating a redirect

                target page]]
            

There is no need to delete the content of the page. The content is simply no longer visible to readers as long as the redirect is included on the page. If you remove the code for redirecting the page, the original content will be loaded again.

Managing page redirects

All redirected pages on the wiki are listed on the special page Special:ListRedirects. In addition, there are pages for broken redirects as well as double redirects in the maintenance reports on the Special pages.

You can navigate to them from Global actions > Special pages.

To maintain the quality of your wiki, you should review these pages on a regular pages and fix any broken and double redirects.

Related info

• Rename and move pages
• Delete an article
• Creating subpages