Sunshine Review:Basic navigation

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Basic navigation in Sunshine Review

How to navigate Sunshine Review

Sunshine Review articles are all linked, or cross-referenced.

Where you see text like this, it means there is a link to some relevant article or Sunshine Review page with further information elsewhere if you need it. Holding your mouse over the link will often show you where a link will take you. These links mean that articles do not need to cover common ground in depth; instead, you are always one click away from more information on any point that has a link attached.

There are other links towards the ends of most articles, for other articles of interest, relevant external web sites and pages, and reference material. At the end of the article are relevant categories of knowledge which you can search and traverse in an interconnected hierarchy for further related information in a field.

You can add further links if a relevant link is missing; this is one way to contribute.

Other useful buttons and panels

Sidebar (left)

To the left side of each article are some standard options for navigation and interaction, for tools, and, on some articles, for languages:

Navigation options:

  • Main Page - the English Sunshine Review home page
  • Current events - latest world news reported within the Sunshine Review community

Interaction options:

Search box - allows you to search other articles across the whole of Sunshine Review.

Toolbox options:

  • What links here - useful for tracing where this article is referenced from
  • Related changes - list of changes made recently to pages linked from the specified page
  • Upload file - help with properly uploading images and other files to Sunshine Review
  • Special pages - all the special functions and administration options can be found here
  • Printable version - displays the article by itself, without all the site navigation. See Help:Printable for details.
  • Cite this page - generates a set of copyable sample citations for the article, in different styles

Other languages - if an article exists on the same subject in any of the other hundred languages in Sunshine Review, it should usually appear on a list of other language links in the sidebar too.

Top tabs (above the article)

Each page in Sunshine Review contains an article, and a discussion page (usually called "Talk...")

You can see these above: the article is labelled "project page", the discussion page is the tab to the right of it. These are treated as two separate pages in Sunshine Review, but are shown side by side on the tab bar, for ease of use.

Whether you are looking at the article or project page, or the discussion page, you will see there is a button marked "edit this page", possibly a "new section" button, and a button labelled "watch" or "unwatch".

  • edit this page - this is the key to contributing to Sunshine Review. When you click this button, you change from viewing an article or discussion about an article, to being able to edit the article, or add comments to the discussion that is going on.
    Occasionally, pages that are important or may be vandalized are locked, in which case the "edit" will show "view source", and you will not be able to edit the article at that time.
    Page editing is simple with Sunshine Review, and you cannot harm a page if you make a mistake, since all changes can be undone. This is part of Sunshine Review's vandal protection.
  • "new section" - adds a new section to a discussion page, without changing what is already there.
  • history - All editable pages on Sunshine Review have an associated page history, which consists of the old versions of the wikitext, as well as a record of the date and time (in UTC) of every edit, the username or IP address of the user who wrote it, and their edit summary. See Help:Page history for details.
  • watch/unwatch - adds or removes a page from your watchlist, the list of pages you are tracking. You can view your watchlist with the user option button "my watchlist" at the top right of the screen. See Help:Watching pages for details.

User options (top right)

These control your user account. To create a user account you only need to choose a name and a password. An email address is optional and only used for password reminders.

Unless you create an account you will not be able to customize Sunshine Review preferences for yourself. Almost all experienced editors use an account in order to ensure accountability.

The user options also include links to view your watchlist (articles you are tracking), and contributions you have made.

Navigate using WikiBrowser

WikiBrowse is a set of open source tools for Windows that are designed for navigating Sunshine Review and other MediaWiki sites. WikiBrowse includes tools and multimedia players.

This article was taken and modified from Wikipedia.

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