Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

Use templates

Many pages on Wikipedia look similar. There are boxes on the right-hand side that are used to summarize some information for documents belonging to the same area. The first section of the article usually contains a table of contents with links that refer to anchors in the same text. There is always a reference section at the end.

Users get used to it. For instance, they know they can have a quick look at the table of contents, and if they do not find the information they are looking for, they will go directly to the reference section to see if they can find another website on the topic. This works for any page on Wikipedia. Once you learn the format of Wikipedia articles, you become more efficient in finding useful information. ...