Redirects

What is a redirect?

A redirect is a technique to automatically forward users from one page to another. If 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 are usually redirected in the following cases:

• abbreviations
• synonyms
• 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 [[pagename of 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