Help:Navigation

Every page on PZwiki not only contains information for you to view, but also allows you to move to other pages. If you regularly use a wiki, such as Wikipedia, then you may be familiar with this functionality, which we refer to as "navigation".

To achieve successful navigation, there are several elements on every page to facilitate this, like the search box, sidebar, tabs and user links. In addition to these standard navigation elements, each page will have its own forms of navigation, either built into the text in the form of hyperlinks, or through categories found at the footer of the article. Many articles also have a navbar, which is found at the top of an article beneath the page title.

Sidebar

PZwiki sidebar shown on the left of the page

The sidebar is displayed on the left edge of the page below the PZwiki site logo. This sidebar gives you access to important pages in the wiki, such as Recent changes or Upload file.

Project Zomboid Wiki

Clicking on the logo brings you back to the main page of the wiki. The navigation section is just below the logo and contains links that will take you to important pages of the wiki.

• Main page – the main landing page when visiting the site. Contains brief details about the current builds along with various links to articles you may be looking for. Can also be done at any time with the shortcut: ALT + ⇧ Shift + Z
• Community portal – find what the PZwiki community is currently working on, or where/how you may be able to help.
• Wiki tasks – see what's general tasks currently being worked on the wiki and contribute to them.
• Wiki rules – read about the wiki's rules.
• Editing help – takes you to the help contents for the wiki site.
• Style guide – contains brief general style guides for when editing articles.
• Recent changes – displays the most recent changes, with the date, time, who and the edit summary. Can also be done at any time with the shortcut: ALT + ⇧ Shift + R
• Random page – takes you to a random page within the wiki. Can also be done at any time with the shortcut: ALT + ⇧ Shift + X

Project Zomboid

The Project Zomboid section contains various useful external links that refer to, and are maintained by, The Indie Stone/Project Zomboid dev team.

• Website – visit the Project Zomboid website. From here you can see everything about the game, from news, to modding and support.
• Forums – visit The Indie Stone Forums. Start a new discussion, read the news or join in the conversation of various topics.
• Bug reports – report any mysterious or unusual behavior in the game you suspect is a bug here.
• Build history – read about the current build status, build history and the plans for future builds.
• Map – visit the official Project Zomboid map.

Languages

Project Zomboid is played by people from all over the world in various different languages, therefore it's important the wiki is also in these languages. If the page is available in another language, they will be shown here. If you'd like to assist in translating an article into another language, you can start by referring to the translations help.

Tools

The tools contain a selection of links which change depending on what type of page you are viewing.

On all pages (except special pages)

• What links here – takes you to a special page that lists the pages on the wiki which contain a link to the current page. This is helpful when you are looking for pages of related information. This information can also be useful when refactoring wiki pages and need to check whether links to this page are still relevant after changes in the current page.
• Related changes – tool lists all recent changes in the pages linked to from the current page. Recent changes to all relevant template pages are included in the resulting page list.

On all pages (including special pages)

• Upload file – displays a special page that allows logged-in users to upload images and other files to the wiki. Uploaded files can be linked from or embedded in wiki pages.
• Special pages – special pages presents information about the Wiki and/or allows access to administration activities for the wiki. For example, a list of users registered with the wiki, statistics about the wiki such as the number of pages and number of page edits, system logs, a list of orphaned pages, and so on.

Page tabs

PZwiki page tabs at the top of the page for a user

The page tabs are displayed at the top of the page to the right of the site logo. These tabs allow you to perform actions or view pages that are directly related to the current page. The available actions include: viewing, editing, and discussing the current page. The specific tabs displayed on your pages depend on whether you are logged into the wiki. On special pages, only the namespace tab is displayed.

All users

• Namespace – namespace, or page type, of the current page (Page, Help page, Special page, Template, User page etc.). Shortcut: ALT + ⇧ Shift + C
• Discussion – view or contribute to the discussion about the current page. Shortcut: ALT + ⇧ Shift + T
• View source – view the page's source code. Displayed if you don't have the correct editing privileges—replaces edit. Shortcut: ALT + ⇧ Shift + E
• View history – view the edit history of the current page. Displays the edit date, time, contributor, and edit summary. Shortcut: ALT + ⇧ Shift + H

Extra-tabs for logged in users

• Edit – view the page source code and make an edit. Reads View source if you don't have the correct editing privileges—removes the edit function. Shortcut: ALT + ⇧ Shift + E
• Move – moves the current page and all its content, giving it a new name. The old page will be blanked and a redirect link to the new page will be added. Shortcut: ALT + ⇧ Shift + M
• Watch – displayed with a star icon. Adds the current page to your watchlist, notifying you whenever a new edit is made. Shortcut: ALT + ⇧ Shift + W
• Create – displayed only when the current page does not exist. Allows you to begin editing like any other page, however on a blank page. Save page will create the new page.

User links

PZwiki user links at the top right of the page

The user links are displayed at the top far right of the page. These tabs allow the logged-in user to view/edit their user page, wiki preferences, contributions and logout.

For anonymous users, the user links is replaced by a link to the wiki login page.

• <username> – links to your personal user page which is where you can put information about yourself, store bits of information you want to remember or whatever else you fancy.
• Talk – links to your discussion page, where people can leave messages for you, which will display a notification on every page you visit.
• Preferences – allows you to change your personal site preferences.
• Watchlist – a list of all pages that you are watching. Pages can be added to this list by clicking "watch" at the top of the page.
• Contributions – a list of all contributions you have made to the wiki.
• Log out – this link will log you out of the wiki.