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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.

: Suppression of automatic categorisation by templates, usually depending on the page namespace.  Some templates uses category suppression to only add a category to a page if it is in a certain namespace, for example the article namespace.

: A page in the file namespace containing information about a file, usually an image.  Since a normal link will show the file, a colon must precede the file name in order to link to the file page, like <code><nowiki>[[:File:Thumbs up 32px]]</nowiki></code>.

: The first section is one or more paragraphs of text preceding the first heading.  The purpose of the first section is twofold:  It should give the reader a clear indication as to whether he have found the right page and it should give him an quick overview of the concepts of the article.

: A category that will not be seen on the page that is categorised.  A category can be hidden by adding the magic word <code><nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki></code> to the category page.

: A wiki link that links to another wiki, for example Wikipedia, by using a interwiki prefix followed by a colon and the name of an article on the other wiki, for example <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:FlightGear]]</nowiki></code> which will render as [[wikipedia:FlightGear]].  Technically the language links are interwiki links though they have additional functionality.

: A template parameter, which have to be used as a key=value pair.

: Apart from the article namespace (the '''Main''' namespace), the namespace is shown as the text preceding the colon in a page title, for example [[Help:Contents|'''Help''':Contents]].  There are several namespaces of which the ones one see mostly is the main (article), '''Template''', '''File''' and '''Help''' namespaces.  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.

: A page in any namespace, among others the main or article namespace.

: A link to a certain revision of a page.  The permalink can be found either in the revision history of a page or in the "Toolbox" drop-down menue on the left.

: A technique to use when the paged linked to is not want one want to show, for example <code><nowiki>Templates can be translated as well, though in a [[Help:Templates#Translating templates|different way]]</nowiki></code>.

: A page that have been protected from editing by an administrator.  Only administrators can edit protected pages.

: 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).  The exception is the first section, which should precede the first heading.

: By adding a sort key to a category link on a page it can be sorted under a different name like this <code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>'''Category:'''Category name<nowiki>|</nowiki>''Sort key''<nowiki>]]</nowiki></code>, for example <code><nowiki>[[Category:Boeing|707-320]]</nowiki></code>.

: Links to commercial sites with the sole and only interest get readers over there to try and sell an often unrelated product.

: A page with a page title including a basepage name and the subpage name separated by a slash, like archive in Talk:Main page/archive.

: A page in one of the talk spaces.  A page were contents of a page is discussed.  Synonymous to discussion page.

: A page in the template namespace.  Contains the template and any categories and often the template's documentation.

: Someone who has registered to the wiki and can edit it.  A few pages are protected from editing by users and users can not delete pages, though they can mark pages for deletion for example using the template {{tl|delete}} to notify the administrators.