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He married a Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu girl Sangeetha on 25th August 1999. They have two children, Jason Sanjay, born on August 26, 2000 in London.[3]; and Divya Saasha born on September 9, 2005 in Chennai |
He married a Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu girl Sangeetha on 25th August 1999. They have two children, Jason Sanjay, born on August 26, 2000 in London.[3]; and Divya Saasha born on September 9, 2005 in Chennai |
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Shortcuts are often linked on talk pages without any [[WP:PIPE|piped]] text, although for the general reader this type of shortcut can decrease readability. Some editors are familiar with the bulk of Wikipedia's [[WP:PRJ|project namespace]] shortcuts, recognizing what they stand for on sight. While shortcuts can help with linking, it is best not to use them as a title when referring to a page. For example, the link ''[[WP:SHC|shortcuts]]'' uses a shortcut to link but gives readers an idea of the target, while quoting ''[[WP:SHC]]'' is unhelpful to those unfamiliar with the page. One should be mindful of the intended audience, and when quoting a page one should consider using its proper title. |
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A proposed method to increase readability is [[Wikipedia:full meta links|using templates producing full meta links]]. Individually a registered user can use [[WP:POPUPS|navigation popups]], a JavaScript tool. |
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==Adding shortcut link boxes== |
==Adding shortcut link boxes== |
Revision as of 08:23, 15 September 2007
Shortcuts in Wikipedia are a specialized type of redirection page that can be used to get to a Wikipedia project reference page more quickly. Lists of available Wikipedia shortcuts can be found at WP:WP = Wikipedia:List of shortcuts, WP:WPR = Wikipedia:Project shortcuts, and WT:WT = Wikipedia:Shortcuts to talk pages.
Procedures
- Shortcut class redirects should be tagged with Template:R from shortcut(edit talk links history) so they will auto-categorize in Category:Redirects from shortcut.Template:IThe template should be added on the same line as the #REDIRECT [[Pagename]] as with all the
{{R from ...}}
templates.
Example: #REDIRECT [[Pagename]] {{R from shortcut}}.
Vijay was born on June 22 to S.A. Chandrasekhar and Shoba Chandrasekhar. He had a sister named Vidhya who died when she was just two.[1] Vijay studied Visual Communications at Loyola College, but dropped out to pursue an acting career.[2]He is interestingly also a classmate of Surya Sivakumar , Yuvan Shankar Raja,Karthik Raja , Jeevan, and Vishnuvardhan
He married a Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu girl Sangeetha on 25th August 1999. They have two children, Jason Sanjay, born on August 26, 2000 in London.[3]; and Divya Saasha born on September 9, 2005 in Chennai
Adding shortcut link boxes
A shortcut link box can be added to a page by placing {{Shortcut|[[WP:<x>]]}}
at the top of the text while editing. A note from the "shortcut template" page:
- Please do not use this template on other templates, e.g. to state that the shortcut to Template:Foo is in fact {{Foo}}. There's no need to state the obvious like that, each template uses its own name as a shortcut, by default.
Guidelines with shortcuts pointing to them typically use {{guideline|[[WP:<x>]]}}
instead of {{Shortcut}}
, for an example see above.
Another example is {{Style-guideline|[[WP:<x>]]}}
, see also Wikipedia header templates.
How to create a shortcut
For an existing page like Wikipedia:Template Standardisation create the desired new WP:TS page with a single line: (example, this shortcut already exists)
#REDIRECT [[Wikipedia:Template Standardisation]] {{R from shortcut}}
Many shortcuts are acronyms, others are abbreviations, quite a lot are simply WP:BAD, but technically they are redirections.
Changing shortcuts
Technically that's easy, click on the shortcut wherever it is, on the page it leads to (a shortcut is a redirect) click on the "redirected from" link (forcing &redirect=no), edit the target #REDIRECT [[Wikipedia:Whatever]], then add {{R from shortcut}}
if that expression doesn't already appear.
But there are some potential traps and pitfalls:
- If the shortcut is already listed on Wikipedia:List of shortcuts or a similar list like Wikipedia:Shortcuts to talk pages, please update that entry showing the new target page.
- If the old target page mentions its shortcut, then that also should be updated, typically in
{{Shortcut}}
or similar Wikipedia header templates. - Above all check the shortcut backlinks with "what links here"; changing a shortcut used elsewhere can be highly disruptive.
- If it has no backlink folks might still use it directly with search forms, if you're not 100% sure that the old target is unused; so ask about it on the shortcut's talk page.
- For controversial cases, go to Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion.
List of shortcuts
An incomplete list of shortcuts can be found at Wikipedia:List of shortcuts, and as expected this page has itself various shortcuts like WP:WP, WP:CUTS, or just [[WP:]].
Other shortcuts for shortcut lists are WP:WPR for Wikipedia:Project shortcuts and WT:WT for Wikipedia:Shortcuts to talk pages. Obviously many shortcuts are (ab)used to make a WP:POINT and best described by WP:WOTTA.
On Meta shortcuts start with WM:, the list is at m:WM:WM. As shown, links to shortcuts on other projects work as expected, but redirects (incl. shortcuts) to pages on other projects won't work - this former feature was abused and hence it has been disabled.
Use special pages to find uncategorized or unlisted pages starting with a given prefix, e.g. Special:Prefixindex/CAT: for some category shortcuts.
List of prefixes
Commonly used pseudo-namespaces include:
WP: | Wikipedia: (in rare cases, User:) |
WT: | Wikipedia talk: |
MOS: | Wikipedia:Manual of Style |
CAT: | Category: |
P: | Portal: |
The following pseudo-namespaces are less commonly used, for a variety of reasons:
Wp: | Wikipedia: |
Wt: | Wikipedia talk: |
WPP: | Wikipedia:WikiProject |
MoS: | Wikipedia:Manual of Style |
Mos: | Wikipedia:Manual of Style |
Special talk: | Wikipedia talk:Special |
Cat: | Category: |
C: | Category: |
T: | Template: or Template talk: |
See also
- Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects
- Wikipedia:List of shortcuts
- Wikipedia:Project shortcuts (WP:WPR) — WikiProjects and Projects list of shortcuts.
- Wikipedia:Shortcuts to talk pages (WP:WT) — all 'wikipedia talk:' namespace (namespace 5) talk pages.
- Category:Redirects from shortcut
- WP:WOTTA, on what NOT to do
- m:WM:WM, shortcuts on Meta