Background
The glossary of the For All Mankind wiki collects many entries. Each of them can be directly accessed by linking to its html anchor. However, articles should not link to the glossary's anchors directly, but instead to a redirection page, which will then lead to the entry in the glossary. The reason for this is, that some of those entries may get a regular article at some point in the future. If this happens, only the redirection page has to be edited to point it to the new target and all links on other articles will still work. If articles link directly to the glossary entries, all those links would get broken.
If new entries are added to the glossary to which occasionally will be linked to from other articles, a new redirection page should be made for this entry, categorized in "Redirects to glossary".
TL;DR
- Do NOT link directly to glossary entries, use the already existing redirection page or create one if it's missing.
See also
- Other redirection tracking categories:
- Redirects (top category)
- Redirects to timeline (70)
- Redirects to real world characters article (146)
- Redirects to bonus video articles (52)
- Redirects to print media list article (23)
- Redirects to Solar System article (20)
- Redirects to Mars article sections (11)
- Redirects to lists (15)
- Image redirects (6)
- Template redirects (51)
- Redirects to project articles (33)
- Redirects to categories (23)
- Redirects to article sections (51)
- Minor character redirects: All (199) • S01 • S02 • S03 • S04
- Other maintenance pages to access redirects:
Help: Access redirection pages
- Getting to redirect pages can be kind of tricky, as klicking the links always leads to the redirect's target page.
- This help section explains the possible ways to access the page without being redirected:
- 1) After being redirected, scroll to the top of the page and click the link showed below the page title, reading (Redirected from [link here]).
- 2) Another option is to copy/paste the link manually and append
?redirect=noto the URL, which suppresses the redirect.
- Both these options are not really convenient, especially if you want to access several pages for some reason (like to add more categories).
- Other ways are:
- 3) Go to Special: ListRedirects. This page lists all redirects of this wiki and you can use your browser's search function to find the page you want to access. However, you may have to browse through several pages as there are a coupe of hundred redirects in that list.
- 4) Go to the target page and click on "What links here" from the page tool menu in the right rail, or alternatively use Special: WhatLinksHere and look up the article's name. The resulting page lets you jump directly to every redirect page and edit them.
- Use a bookmarklet
- If you want to access many redirection pages directly from this or any other redirect category list, there is another neat trick using some javascript code snippet to make a so called bookmarklet. This is especially convenient if you need to access redirection pages on a regular basis.
- Copy the following code:
javascript:(function () {for (i = 0; i < document.links.length; ++i) {document.links[i].href += '?redirect=no'}})() - Create a new bookmark in your browser and insert this code instead of the URL. Save it with a meaningful name and in a convenient place, like in your bookmark bar.
- If you now click this bookmarklet while on a category page collecting redirects like this one, the javascript will add
?redirect=noto every link on that page, so no redirecting will happen when clicked.
However, be aware the EVERY link on that page now has this addition, not only those in the list. Clicking on any other link on that page may result in unexpected behavior. It is therefore best practice to open all desired links from the so prepared page in new tabs, and then either close the altered page, or use the browser's back function to return to the last page after you opened the desired redirect page(s).
All items (120)
It contains all redirects to the glossary.