Help:Organization
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Overview
The MediaWiki software used in the guide is excellent for holding and formatting information. However, it is terrible at organizing that information. If you want to have any sort of organization beyond the search page, you have to add it yourself.
Fortunately, MediaWiki offers various methods of organizing information, such as namespaces, categories, and redirect pages. Of these, categories and redirect pages are primarily used on the Undead Assault guide.
Contextual Links
The primary method of connecting information is to insert contextual links that connect articles together. For instance, you might be writing an article on difficulty settings and want to talk about how the player's rank affects the hitpoints and damage of enemies. You can do that by adding contextual links in the body of your article, like this:
For instance, you might be writing an article on [[Game Modes|difficulty settings]] and want to talk about how the player's [[Experience|rank]] affects the hitpoints and damage of [[enemies]].
If you would like to learn more about creating links, please see the editing help page.
Redirects
A redirect page will send viewers to a different page. This is useful when there are two names for a particular page (such as Medic and Navy Corpsman), or when there are alternate spellings or capitalization schemes that need to be reconciled.
Setting up a redirect page is very easy. Simply create (or edit) the page that should become the redirect and add the following code to the top:
#REDIRECT [[Redirect Target]]
Obviously, [[Redirect Target]] should be replaced with the name of the page you want to redirect to.
Pro tip: You can do this with images to create clickable images that link directly to other pages.
If you accidentally establish a redirect and want to remove it, look for the "redirected from <pagename>" text immediately under the page heading. You can click on the redirect page's name to return to the redirect page and edit it.
Categories
Categories are an easy way to establish groups of pages. For instance, you might want to create a group of all the MOS. To do this, simply add [[Category:MOS]] to the page in question. It's a good idea to keep the category code at the very end of the article so it's easy to find. If you want to add multiple categories, simply add multiple tags.
Included Categories
If you use a template or transclude you may (inadvertently) pick up additional categories. Depending on the situation, you may or may not want these extra categories. You should keep this in mind when you create or use the include functions.
