As your wiki fills up, a little organization keeps it easy to navigate. None of this is required to start — add it when you need it.
Page names and addresses edit
A page’s name becomes its web address. “Getting started” lives at /getting-started. You can group related pages into sections using a slash in the name — help/editing and help/formatting sit together under “help”. Think of these like folders.
Categories edit
Categories group related pages so readers can browse by topic. Add a page to one or more categories in its settings (see Settings), and it shows up as a chip at the bottom of the page. Clicking a category lists everything in it.
Categories can:
- Combine — view pages that are in two categories at once.
- Nest — a category can live inside a broader one.
- Separate housekeeping from topics — “needs sources” or “draft” categories are kept apart from real subject categories.
The home page edit
Your wiki’s front page is just another page (named index). Edit it like any other to set the tone — a welcome, a few key links, what your wiki is about.
Renaming and moving edit
Renaming a page is a single action — pick the new name and the page moves, history and all. A gentle pointer is left behind at the old address so existing links still work (a redirect). You can also make a page redirect to another on purpose, which is useful for alternate names of the same topic.
Merging and splitting edit
When your wiki grows you may want to reshape it:
- Merge folds one page into another and leaves a redirect behind, so two overlapping pages become one.
- Split carves a section out of a long page into a new page of its own.
Both keep the full history intact.
Multiple languages edit
A page can exist in several languages as separate, linked pages. A language bar lets readers switch between them and offers to start a translation for any language that’s missing. To turn languages on for your wiki, see Make it yours.
Finding things to fix edit
Wikigit keeps a set of housekeeping pages that surface loose ends automatically — pages nothing links to, links to pages that don’t exist yet, dead-end pages, and so on. They’re a useful to-do list as your wiki matures; you’ll find them in the wiki’s special pages.