Wikipedia:Shortcut index
This is an index of abbreviated redirects and the pages they lead to (mainly in the Wikipedia namespace). For a list of community related shortcuts such as for WikiProjects and Portals, see WP:WPR and WP:PORTCUT, respectively. For a list of shortcuts to Wikipedia talk pages, see WT:WT. For a table of all one-, two-, and three-letter shortcuts, see WP:SCT.
For other useful directories and indexes, see Wikipedia:Directories and indexes.
How to create a shortcut
Shortcuts exist as redirects pointing from the title of the shortcut (for example, Wikipedia:START) to its target (in this case, Portal:Contents). Notice that project shortcuts are usually listed with the prefix "WP" and not "Wikipedia"; this is because when "WP" or "Wp" appears before a colon in a page name, MediaWiki automatically expands it to "Wikipedia". Therefore, there is no need to create shortcuts literally starting with "WP:" as opposed to "Wikipedia:". Prefixes similar to "WP" can be found at Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes.
Shortcut redirects should be tagged with Template:R from shortcut(edit talk links history) so they will auto-categorize in Category:Redirects from shortcuts.
- Example: #redirect [[Pagename]] {{R from shortcut}}
Browsing the encyclopedia
Portal shortcuts
This is an incomplete list of shortcuts.
Project shortcuts
Contents WikiProjects
Topic-oriented WikiProjects
General WikiProjects and editing department shortcuts
General information, help, and tutorials
Help desks (where you can ask questions)
Searching
General help topics
Collaboration and community
Village pump and featured content
Wikipedia and the Wikipedia community
Wikipedia culture and essays
Department of fun
Procedures, policies, and guidelines
Process
Policy
Guidelines
Miscellany
Templates, tools, and other resources
Other
Shortcut alphabet
| Pagename | Redirects |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia:Attribution (summary page) | WP:A |
| Wikipedia:Bots (info page) | WP:B |
| Wikipedia:Copyrights (policy) | WP:C |
| Wikipedia:Disambiguation (guideline) | WP:D |
| Wikipedia:Editing policy (policy) | WP:E |
| Wikipedia:Non-free content (guideline) | WP:F |
| Wikipedia:Glossary (help page) | WP:G |
| Help:Contents (help menu) | WP:H |
| Help:Introduction (help page) | WP:I |
| Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz | WP:J |
| Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts (help page) | WP:K |
| Wikipedia:Lists (disambiguation page) | WP:L |
| Wikipedia:Mediation (essay) | WP:M |
| Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) | WP:N |
| Wikipedia:Orphan (help page) | WP:O |
| Help:Purge#Null Edit (help page) | WP:Ø |
| Wikipedia:Portal (info page) | WP:P |
| Wikipedia:Questions (help page, directory) | WP:Q |
| Wikipedia:Redirect (how-to guideline) | WP:R |
| Wikipedia:S (disambiguation page) | WP:S |
| Wikipedia:T (disambiguation page) | WP:T |
| Wikipedia:Username policy (policy) | WP:U |
| Wikipedia:Verifiability (policy) | WP:V |
| Help:Watchlist (help page) | WP:W |
| Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity | WP:X |
| Wikipedia:Help desk | WP:Y |
| Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoo | WP:Z |
Two- and three-character shortcuts
See Wikipedia:Shortcut table for a list of all of these in both upper and lower case.
See also
- Special:Prefixindex/CAT:
- Special:Prefixindex/P:
- Category:Redirects from shortcuts
- m:Meta:Shortcut, shortcuts in Meta namespace
- User:B jonas/Pages with shortcuts
- User:Eumat114/shortcut and User:Eumat114/shortcuts/cond, lists of 3-letter shortcuts
- Wikipedia:List of non-self-explanatory template shortcuts
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Shortcuts
- Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!, an essay on acronym use
- Wikipedia:ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI, an essay on acronym use