Help:Navigation

A wiki like Ifigenia can be navigated in many ways. Here are some of the basic instructions to help you get quickly used to the wiki environment.

• Contrary to some well known text editors, for which a blank untitled document can be opened and later saved under a filename, the wiki works the other way round: you first determine the name of the page, and open the blank page for editing, then enter the content and save your edit.

• Almost every wiki page allows forward and backward navigation. Forward navigation is accomplished by means of the wikilinks going out from the current one, and the backward navigation is possible by means of the "What links here" tool, showing the incoming links from other pages pointing to the current one. You can navigate both the blue links (to existing pages), as well as the red links (to nonexistent ones); for example, you can see what links to a nonexistent page like the page Example. The list of links is here: Special:Whatlinkshere/Example.

• You can navigate the category tree vertically: upward to the parent nodes and downward to the children nodes. An easy tool to use for this purpose is Special:CategoryTree.

• All pages (without the Special pages) are paired with corresponding talk pages. For instance the main namespace has adjacent Talk: namespace, the Ifigenia: namespace has adjacent Ifigenia talk: namespace, and so on. Every pair of pages is equipped with independent history pages: a page from the Category: namespace has different history from its adjacent discussion page in Category talk: namespace. The page histories can be navigated in various ways: by comparison of two consequent versions or comparison of more versions in a row.

• Every user can keep a track of their own contributions, as well as of the contributions of any other editor. The bigger part of the edits are saved in the page histories. A smaller part of other actions (not content edits, but uploads, moves, deletions, etc) are saved in various logs. It is useful to watch pages and regularly check the list of watched pages; it is private and only the user can access his/her own personal watchlist.

• The navigation between the different namespaces requires typing in the search engine not only the page name, but also the namespace prefix. For instance, this page is named "Navigation" and it belongs to the Help: namespace. Only the main namespace doesn't have a prefix. The Ifigenia database, can be accessed per namespace, via the special page "All pages". A good starting point for navigation in the category tree is the main category also accessible from the navigation box on the left.

Access and copyright policies per namespace
Namespace	Read right	Write right	Copyrights
(main)	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Talk:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
User:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
User talk:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Ifigenia:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Ifigenia talk:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Image:	Everyone	Registered users	Free license
Image talk:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
MediaWiki:	Everyone	Administrators	Free license
MediaWiki talk:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Template:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Template talk:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Help:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Help talk:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Category:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Category talk:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Draft:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Draft talk:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Issue:	Everyone	Administrators	All rights reserved
Issue talk:	Everyone	Everyone	Free license
Private:	Registered users	Registered users	All rights reserved
Private talk:	Registered users	Registered users	All rights reserved

Legend:

Public editable zone

Public non-editable zone

Private zone

See also

• Help:Contents with links to other help pages