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: A category is something between a directory in a directory path and a tag, as a page sometimes can benefit from being in more than one category.  Adding a category to a page is a way to organise the articles and put them in a larger context.  A page is added to a category by adding a link to the category on the page, like <code><nowiki>[[Category:Help]]</nowiki></code>, preferably at the end.  To link to a category without adding a page to the category, the page name is preceded by a colon, like <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Help]]</nowiki></code>.

: The page in the ''Category'' namespace where the categories resides.  Should preferably only contain a description, base categories and sometimes one or more templates.

:  There are several page [[Help:Namespaces|namespaces]] of which the ones one see mostly is the ''Main'' (article), ''Template'', ''File'', ''Help'' and ''FlightGear wiki'' namespaces. Apart from the ''Main'' (article) namespace, the namespace is indicated by a prefix preceding the colon in a page title, for example [[Help:Contents|'''Help''':Contents]].  Some of the namespaces have special functions, like the ''File'' namespace.  Most namespaces also have an associated ''* talk'' namespace for discussion of the contents of a page, for example the ''Template talk'' namespace.  ''See also ''pseudo-namespace.

: A part of the article consisting of a heading and wikitext. Section and subsection headings will automatically be shown in a table of contents if there is 4 or more headings (though this can be suppressed using the magic word <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code> or the {{tl|TOC limit}} template).  The exception is the lead section, which should precede the first heading.