Chain of Fools - Linking Pages from eRepublik to the Wiki

Day 494, 21:46 • Published in Germany USA • by Q J Lincoln

One of the biggest problems I see in the wiki is that people forget to link the pages that they have created back to eRepublik. Creating a page in the wiki doesn't automatically make the black book wiki link work. You must physically create a link within the wiki. This is called a redirect.

The following types of pages have black book links that take you directly to the wiki: profile, company, organization, newspaper, party, country, and region. Each of these pages need to have the links manually created for the links to work.

How to create a redirect:
1. Click the black-book Wiki link next to the name of the citizen, newspaper, party, etc. For the example I will use my newspaper
2. A Wiki page called "Newspaper Wiki Chronicle" appears
3. I click the Create tab
4. I type: #REDIRECT Wiki Chronicle
5. I click save
6. Since the page [[Wiki Chronicle] doesn't exist yet (there is a red link), I click the red link to create the page (using a template, of course)

The redirect will ensure that visitors to my newspaper can have direct access the the wiki page I have created about it.

For more information about redirects, please see: http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Help:Game_%26_Wiki_Integration

This is also explained in the Citizen Page Tutorial http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Citizen_Page_Tutorial