Help:Wiki help

This page lists a number of terms frequently used in a wiki and gives a brief definition of each one. Entries are alphabetically arranged.

Links

Links are obviously one of the most used functions within a wiki. One can link both to internal and external resources.

Internal links

An internal link is a link between two pages within the same wiki.

Namespaces

Namespaces are used to group or separate pages. Usually one can recognize if a page is in a particular namespace by looking at the URL of the page. Some examples:

• http://mediawikiarchivio.unigre.it/mediawiki/index.php/Category:AKC_Letters
• http://mediawikiarchivio.unigre.it/mediawiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers
• http://mediawikiarchivio.unigre.it/mediawiki/index.php/Page:AKC_1652_APUG561_277.pdf/1

In these cases the used namespaces are 'Category', 'Special' and 'Page'. So, as we can see, usually a namespace preceeds the name of a page with a structure like this 'NamespaceName:PageName'. This is always true except for the 'Main' namespace (see below). Within a wiki there are several namespaces and they can be used for different purposes: maintenance, development, discussion, articles and so on. Following a list of the most used namespaces is provided.

(Main)

The so called 'Main' namespace groups all the articles page within a wiki.

Category

Within the category namespace all the categories of a wiki are grouped.

Form

Pages in this namespace are structured as forms to fill with data. An example is the Form:Bibliography_entries, in this wiki used to add bibliographical data.