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Basic navigation in Bahaikipedia

How to navigate Bahaikipedia

Bahaikipedia articles are all linked, or cross-referenced.

Where you see text like this, it means there is a link to some relevant article or Bahaikipedia page with further information elsewhere if you need it. Holding your mouse over the link will often show you where a link will take you. These links mean that articles do not need to cover common ground in depth; instead, you are always one click away from more information on any point that has a link attached.

There are other links towards the ends of most articles, for other articles of interest, relevant external web sites and pages, and reference material. At the end of the article are relevant categories which you can search and traverse in a loose hierarchy for further related information in a field.

Some articles may also have links to dictionary definitions, audiobook readings, quotations, or the same article in other languages.

You can add further links if a relevant link is missing; this is one way to contribute.

Main Page

Featured content is the way to the best articles, pictures, lists and books in the encyclopedia.

Contents and index browsing

To help you find your way around this world of knowledge, Bahaikipedia has many pages that organize its contents. These lists and indices use links to the articles that are organized by subject or alphabetically. Our best content also finds its way to one of the featured content lists. Links to all of Bahaikipedia's main contents pages are presented below, and they in turn link to all the rest.

Other useful buttons and panels

Sidebar (left)

To the side of each article are some standard options for navigation, and for tools, and on some articles, for languages:

Navigation options include:

  • Main Page - the Bahaikipedia home page
  • Recent changes - articles that are being edited at this moment
  • Random article - lucky dip, if you're ever bored or want to learn something new!
  • Help - exactly what it says

Toolbox includes:

  • What links here - useful for tracing where this article is referenced from.
  • Related changes
  • Upload file - how you add images (and occasionally other files) to Bahaikipedia
  • Special pages - all the special functions and administration options can be found here.

Other sidebar functions include:

  • Search - allows you to search other articles across the whole of Bahaikipedia.
  • Other languages - if an article exist on the same subject in any of the other hundred languages in Bahaikipedia, it should usually appear on a list of other language links in the sidebar too.

Top tabs (above the article)

Each page in Bahaikipedia contains an article, and a discussion page (usually called "Talk...")

You can see these above, the article is labelled "project page", the discussion page is the tab to the right of it. These are treated as two separate pages in Bahaikipedia, but are shown side by side on the tab bar, for ease of use.

Whether you are looking at the article or project page, or the discussion page, you will see there is a button marked "edit this page", possibly a button "+", and a button labelled "watch" or "unwatch".

  • Edit this page - this is the key to contributing to Bahaikipedia. When you click this button, you change from viewing an article or discussion about an article, to being able to edit the article, or add comments to the discussion that is going on.
Occasionally, pages that are important or may be vandalized are locked, in which case the "edit" will show "view source", and you will not be able to edit the article at that time
Page editing is simple with Bahaikipedia, and you cannot harm a page if you make a mistake, since all changes can be undone. This is part of Bahaikipedia's vandal protection.
  • "+" - adds a new section to a page, without changing what is already there.
  • Watch/unwatch - adds or removes a page from your watchlist, the list of pages you are tracking. You can view your watchlist with the user option button "my watchlist" at the top right of the screen.

User options (top right)

These control your user account. To create a user account you only need to choose a name and a password. An email address is optional and only used for password reminders.

Unless you create an account you will not be able to customize Bahaikipedia preferences for yourself. Almost all experienced editors use an account in order to ensure accountability.

The user options also include links to view your watchlist (articles you are tracking), and contributions you have made.

Navigate using WikiBrowser

WikiBrowse is a set of open source tools for Windows that are designed for navigating Wikipedia and other MediaWiki sites. WikiBrowse includes tools and multimedia players. See also: Wikipedia Tools
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