VassarWiki:Creating a page
Creating a page on VassarWiki is actually quite simple! This help guide will walk you through the process.
Before making a new page...
- Take a look at the inclusion guidelines to ensure that your desired page is within VassarWiki's scope.
- Search to ensure a page for your subject doesn't already exist. It may exist under an alternative name. If it's under a different name, you should create a redirect or move the page.
- Consider making a category instead, if your page would only serve to group other pages.
Creating a page
You can create a page in two main ways:
- Go to Special:EditPage and enter the desired title.
- Click any red link to the desired title. On desktop, you can do this by searching the desired title.
Populating the page
Don't worry about making your page perfect, complete, or even presentable at first. VassarWiki is a continual work in progress. If the page is particularly underpopulated or incomplete, you should put Template:Construction at the top (for information on templates, see VassarWiki:Templates).
Creating a redirect
Going to a redirect will send a reader to another page. This functionality is useful when a subject has multiple common names (e.g. VSA redirects to Vassar Students Association).
To create a redirect, create a page as normal. If you're in the Visual Editor (usually the default), click the hamburger menu on the top right of the toolbar and go to "Page settings". Then select the redirect checkbox and type the title of the page you wish to redirect to. If you're in the Source Editor, click "Advanced" in the toolbar. Click the icon with a page and an arrow in the "Insert" section, and replace "Target page name".