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Creating a redirect. To create a redirect, enter the title you wish to redirect away from into the box below. This will create a new page, but it will not be published to Wikipedia proper until you hit 'Publish'. Enter the title you want to create here, and click Create redirect: Note that creating a redirect on mobile browser can cause issues ...
Using VisualEditor. To create a redirect using the VisualEditor: Open the "page options" menu (icon with three parallel horizontal bars) at the top right of the editor. Select "Page settings". Check the box marked "Redirect this page to". Enter the name of the target page in the text box below the checkbox.
There is also a wizard that less experienced editors can use to create a redirect. A redirect page can be created like any other page (see Creating a new page). Simply type in the wikitext #REDIRECT [ [xxx]], replacing "xxx" with the title of the target page (optionally followed by a "#" sign and the section title).
URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, is a World Wide Web technique for making a web page available under more than one URL address. When a web browser attempts to open a URL that has been redirected, a page with a different URL is opened. Similarly, domain redirection or domain forwarding is when all pages in a URL domain are redirected ...
It is bad practice to create links in article text using the format [[Article#Section]]; navigation then becomes difficult if the section is expanded into a new article. Instead, link using a redirect to the main topic; it costs little and makes improvements easier. Thus: In a redirect page named "History of Topic", use #REDIRECT [[Topic#History]].
Full details can be found in Help:Template, Wikipedia:Templates and m:Help:Advanced templates. A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions ...
A page that is a redirect can be moved like any other page, although it is rarely useful because it has the same detrimental effect on page history as copy-pasting content to a new page, and making the old page a redirect: when moving a redirect page to a new page name, the redirect on the old page (now directing to the new redirect page) will ...
An alternative to a piped link is using redirect pages. For example, to create How to set up a coffee house, use [[How to set up a coffee house]] and make this a redirect to coffeehouse setup. This is convenient if the redirect is already there or will also be of use elsewhere; however, there are a few drawbacks: