Help:Navigation

When viewing any page on a MediaWiki wiki, you'll find three main navigation elements:

1. The sidebar on the left gives you access to important pages in the wiki such as Recent changes or Upload file.
2. At the top of the page are links (often called tabs) which relate to the page currently displayed: its associated discussion page, the version history, and—most notably—the edit link.
3. In the top right corner you'll find user links; as an anonymous user, you'll see a link to create an account or log in (they are the same page). As a logged-in user you have a collection of personal links, including ones to your user page and preferences.

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Page Tabs

The page tabs are displayed at the top of the page to the right of the site logo (if using the default MonoBook skin). These tabs allow you to perform actions or view pages that are related to the current page. The available default actions include: viewing, editing, and discussing the current page. The specific tabs displayed on your pages depend on whether or not you are logged into the wiki and whether you have sysop (administrator) privileges on the wiki. On special pages only the namespace tab is displayed.

Default for all users

• “namespace” (page, help, special page, template, user page etc.)
• “discussion”
• “edit” (may read “view source” if anonymous editing is disabled, the page is in the MediaWiki: namespace, or the page is protected)
• “history”

Extra tabs for logged-in users

• “move”
• “watch”

User Links

The user links are displayed at the top far right of the page (if using the default MonoBook skin). These tabs allow the logged-in user to view and edit their user page and wiki preferences. Additionally, the user links allow the user to quickly access their contributions to the wiki and logout.

For anonymous users the user links is replaced by a link to the wiki login page or, if enabled, a link to your IP address and your IP address's talk page.

“<username>”

This links to your user page which is where you can put information about yourself, store bits of information you want to remember or whatever else you fancy.

“talk”

This links to your discussion page, where people can leave messages for you.

“preferences”

Allows you to change your personal site preferences.

“watchlist”

A list of all pages that you are watching. Pages can be added to this list by clicking “watch” at the top of the page.

“contributions”

A list of all contributions you have made to the wiki.

“log out”

Click this link to log out of the wiki.