Ebinkley: Mocking up a quick OAD-specific help guide, as requested by Robin Peek.

2012-06-13T04:19:09Z

Mocking up a quick OAD-specific help guide, as requested by Robin Peek.

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This is a short collection of wiki markup tricks that have been useful for OAD users.

For a full handbook of wiki markup, see [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing the Wikimedia Foundation's guide].

== Links ==

A page title enclosed in double brackets will link to that page on the OAD. An external URL followed by text and enclosed in single brackets will create a link with that text to that URL.

To link to an internal OAD page with text other than the page title, enclose in double brackets the page title, followed by a pipe, followed by the link text.

For example, the link to the main page at the top of every list should look as follows:

<pre>
[[Main Page | Open Access Directory]]
</pre>

The result: [[Main Page | Open Access Directory]]

== Redirects ==

If another website links to an incorrectly titled OAD list, you can make the broken link automatically redirect users to the correct one. Go to the incorrect URL and create a page with the following text:

<pre>
#REDIRECT [[Correct list name]]
</pre>

For example, the full text of the page [[OA journal fund]], which automatically takes viewers to the list [[OA journal funds]], is:

<pre>
#REDIRECT [[OA journal funds]]
</pre>

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Ebinkley: Mocking up a quick OAD-specific help guide, as requested by Robin Peek.