User:WikiWriter/Samples/Magic words

The most useful magic words, and other built-in MediaWiki markup.

#REDIRECT

This 'tag' in an article automatically redirects from the article it's in, to specified other.

By convention article-names should not be acronyms, but it can be useful to do so with that article redirecting to the article with the 'expanded' name.

Example

The GMT article contains the following redirect 'tag' to the Greenwich Mean Time article.

#REDIRECT [[Greenwich_Mean_Time]]

__NOEDITSECTION__

You probably won't use this 'tag' in a general article, but adding it to an article (usually at the top) prevents the automatic addition of section-edit links. Note this 'tag' is created with double-underscores before, and after 'NOEDITSECTION'.

__NOEDITSECTION__

__NOTOC__

You probably won't use this 'tag' in a general article, but adding it to an article (usually at the top) prevents the automatic addition of a table-of-contents.

Note this 'tag' is created with double-underscores before, and after the 'NOTOC'.

<nowiki> and </nowiki>

This 'tag-pair' forces wiki-markup to be ignored.

Without

... to the [[Main Page|Main Page]] ...

creates :
... to the Main Page ...

With

... to the <nowiki>[[Main Page|Main Page]]</nowiki> ...

creates :
... to the [[Main Page|Main Page]] ...