Pensapedia:Shortcut
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Shortcuts in Pensapedia are a specialized type of redirection page that can be used to get to a Pensapedia reference page more quickly. Lists of available Pensapedia shortcuts can be found at LOSC (itself a shortcut for Pensapedia:List of shortcuts). This is a feature borrowed from Wikipedia that will likely not see widespread implementation until Pensapedia has grown much larger.
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[edit] Procedures
- Shortcut class redirects should be tagged with so they will auto-categorize in Category:Redirects from shortcut.
The template should be added on the same line as the #redirect [[Pagename]] as with all the {{R from ...}} templates.
Example: #redirect [[Pagename]] {{R from shortcut}}.
[edit] How to use pensapedia shortcuts
A shortcut can be entered into the search box to quickly bring you to a reference page.
For example, you can type "R" into the search box and click the "Go" button to get to the "Redirect" reference page, instead of having to type "Help:Redirect".
Alternatively, you can use the shortcut in the URL (web address). For example, you are currently viewing the Pensapedia:Shortcut. The URL for the English-language page is:
You could get from here to the Help:Redirect project reference page by replacing "pensapedia:Shortcut" with "R" in the URL (web address) field (followed by "Enter").
Shortcuts are presented in all capital letters ("All-Caps"), but the search box is case-insensitive. For example, in the search box, you can type "r" instead of "R".
However, using the URL method typically requires that you match the capitalization of the shortcut itself.
[edit] Adding shortcut link boxes
A shortcut link box can be added to a page by placing {{Shortcut|[[WP:<x>]]}} at the top of the text while editing. A note from the "shortcut template" page:
- Please do not use this template on other templates, e.g. to state that the shortcut to Template:Foo is in fact {{Foo}}. There's no need to state the obvious like that, each template uses its own name as a shortcut, by default.
Guidelines with shortcuts pointing to them typically use {{guideline|[[WP:<x>]]}} instead of {{Shortcut}}, for an example see above. Another example is {{Style-guideline|[[WP:<x>]]}}, see also Pensapedia header templates.
[edit] How to create a shortcut
For an existing page like Pensapedia:Template Standardisation create the desired new TS page with a single line: (example, this shortcut already exists)
#REDIRECT[[Pensapedia:Template Standardisation]] {{R from shortcut}}
Many shortcuts are acronyms while others are abbreviations, but technically they are redirections.
[edit] Changing shortcuts
Technically that's easy, click on the shortcut wherever it is, on the page it leads to (a shortcut is a redirect) click on the "redirected from" link (forcing &redirect=no), edit the target #REDIRECT [[Pensapedia:Whatever]], then add {{R from shortcut}} if that expression doesn't already appear. But there are some potential traps and pitfalls:
- If the shortcut is already listed on PP or a similar list like WT please update that entry showing the new target page.
- If the old target page mentions its shortcut, then that also should be updated, typically in {{Shortcut}} or similar Pensapedia header templates.
- Above all check the shortcut backlinks with "what links here"; changing a shortcut used elsewhere can be highly disruptive.
- If it has no backlink folks might still use it directly with search forms, if you're not 100% sure that the old target is unused; so ask about it on the shortcut's talk page.
- For controversial cases there is a "redirects for deletion" procedure RFD.
[edit] List of shortcuts
An incomplete list of shortcuts can be found at Pensapedia:List of shortcuts, and as expected this page has itself various shortcuts like LOSC, CUTS, or just PP.
