Manual:Create pages

Together we know more

An important aspect of the wiki principle is that information can be shared with other people quickly and without any "red tape". Every wiki user with editor edit rights should therefore be able to create and edit a page at least in the namespace (pagesMain) namespace without further any prior knowledge and privileges.

or without special privileges to contribute to the company knowledge.

How do I create a page?

Ways to create a new page

There are four ways to create a new

article

page in BlueSpice:

via

• using the search box

via

• using the "New Page" button

via

• using a text link (redlink)

via

• using the web address ("url")
  

About Using the search field

Maybe information about your topic already exists. Before you create a new page, you can use the search to briefly enter terms for your topic and check existing pages. If there is no page on your topic yet, click on the red link 'PageCreate page [page name]create' in the search results:

About Using the "New Pagepage" button

Next to the search box is a button to create a page. This button is only activated activate if you are logged in and have write permissions on the wiki (or in a specific namespace):

Here you can create a page or a subpage to of the current page. In addition, you can also upload a file (image, PDF, Word file, etc.) to the wiki.

About Using a text link (Redlinkredlink)

For example, Let's say that you want to create the "trainingTraining" page. In the current You can directly select any text on the current page , you can directly select text and define it as a link to a new page. This creates a so-called red link, which has already been created by this, but for which redlink. From them on, the link exists, but there is no wiki page yetfor it. The example page "trainingTraining" is thus also listed on the special Special page desired pages WantedPages.

With VisualEditor: Click the Link button () or press Ctrl+K to create a page. Now enter the page name. If there is no page with this name, the page turns name is shown in red and the page icon shows a question mark. Click "pasteDone" to create the redlink.

In the source text:

When editing the source code, enter the new page name as a link:

[[Training]]

Since the page does not yet exist, the link is shown in red after saving:

About Using the web address

You can also create a page directly from the address bar of your web browser. This is a feature of classic wiki development, but not so:

Simply change exchange the current page name with a new one. Here you , we create a page "supportSupport" in the main namespace (pagesMain) in the BlueSpice Helpdesk:

                     https://de.wiki.bluespice.com/wiki/Support

                

Select Selecting a template

When you create a page, you are always redirected to an overview page. There, if available, select a page template from various Templates: Create

Creating a new article page in a namespace: To create a new article/ page in a namespace, create a new article as described above. Just put the name of the namespace in front of it with , followed by a colon z. Eg "Example: Help:New_Article".

Tips

• Browser navigation: When creating pages, try not to use the Back button to "back" button. You could lose content that you have not yet saved or that you want to re- edit again.
• Redirects: Are Do you of have the opinion impression that an article title is searched more often with a different synonym? Then create a new article with this name first. Then work with a Forwarding redirect the page.

• Title choice: In a wiki, titles are very important. In wikis with many entries, authors may , "fortunately," make references to pages that they deem important in the context of their entry. It should therefore be ensured that the title as close as possible and exactly what the page is aboutThe page title should, therfore, clearly communicate its contetn. Single words are very good, but even short sentences like "why wikis work" can be useful names. In addition, meaningful page titles also help readers find their way around and when they search for an entry.

• Spelling: When linking to an already existing page you should pay attention to their exact spelling. If you e.g. typing a [[hello world]] instead of [[Hello World]] will create a new page as the links are spelled differently. Therefore, consider also case capitalization and spaces. Only at the beginning of the letter does it make no difference whether you write it big or smalla small or capital letter.

• Namespaces: In order If you want to create an article in a different namespace, the namespace must appear before the respective article name. E.g. Example:[[namespace:article name]].

• Special characters: The following characters can not cannot be used in titles nottitles : { } & ? < > \ and ,. For more information, see Mediawiki. mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_title.

• Subpages: The character / is used to create a subpage.

Template:Box Links

Related info

• Rename and move pages
• Redirects - Using Synonyms
• Creating and Using Page Templates