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Method 1: searching. Enter text in the search field that you seek to create as a page title. If the title you entered does not already exist, is not technically restricted and is not creation protected, the resulting page will i) tell you that it does not exist; ii) advise that you can create the page, and iii) will provide a red link to the ...
Random. On Wikipedia and other sites running on MediaWiki, Special:Random can be used to access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to generate a random article. Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using a keyboard shortcut (in Firefox, Edge, and Chrome Alt-Shift + X ).
Page names are used to title pages, to navigate to pages, to search for pages, and for things like transclusion and substitution. Page names also conveniently serves as link names in wikitext, if enclosed in double square brackets, like [ [Page name]]. If a page is moved, the page name will also move.
v. t. e. Page name is a term for the title of any page on Wikipedia. A page is named for the convenience of linking to it by its title. It is shown on the title line, near the top, in large bold letters. On Wikipedia, a database stores all the pages, and so a page is also named for the convenience of a database query to get that page.
t. e. User pages are pages for organizing the work users do on Wikipedia, as well as speaking to other users. User pages are mainly for interpersonal discussion, notices, testing and drafts (see: Sandboxes ), and, if desired, limited autobiographical and personal content. Pages in the User and User talk namespaces are considered to be user pages.
Full details can be found in Help:Template, Wikipedia:Templates and m:Help:Advanced templates . A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions ...
This page in a nutshell: Article titles should be recognizable, concise, natural, precise, and consistent. A Wikipedia article title is the large heading displayed above the article's content, and the basis for the article's page name and URL. [a] The title indicates what the article is about and distinguishes it from other articles.
If you have a URL (web page) link, you can add it to the title part of the citation, so that when you add the citation to Wikipedia the URL becomes hidden and the title becomes clickable. To do this, enclose the URL and the title in square brackets—the URL first, then a space, then the title. For example: