Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-15636815-20151104192405/@comment-15636815-20151105010824

Saftzie wrote: If the pages don't exist on a wiki, however, you won't see them on a list of pages that exist on that wiki. This is obvious, yes. The fact that I should not expect pages in the MediaWiki namespace already to exist--especially in light of the fact that people in this forum constantly talk about such pages as though they always exist, everywhere, all the time--is less so.

I'm sure someone has written it, but so far I haven't read any posts where someone told someone to edit a page or to create said page if it doesn't already exist. They just mention editing and walk away. I'm fairly new (five weeks) at the admin thing, so, while I do naturally think edit-or-create for articles in mainspace, or templates, or what-have-you, for some reason I did not expect this to be the case for the underlying system stuff. In short, I was exactly right: I was remarkably oblivious to something everyone else here take for granted. Stupid Admin Trick #1. Let's see how many more I can find.