Wikipedia is one of the most commonly used websites on the internet. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, a large non profit organization dedicated to free and accessible knowledge. Articles can be re-used by anyone under the Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike License. It is a go-to source of information for people all over the world.

Wikipedia is accessed over 3,000 times per second worldwide and often comes up at the top of Google search results. If you or your company have had significant media coverage, you could qualify for and benefit from having a Wikipedia article. In order to be considered notable, you must provide evidence of significant press coverage from independent and reliable news outlets.

Contact WikiCreators for a free assessment to determine if your subject will pass Wikipedia’s notability requirements.

Why you need a Wikipedia Table of Contents

Now that you are going to write a Wikipedia article, it is important to set up a table of contents (TOC). A quality TOC will give readers an outline of the article and direct them to the information they are looking for. The table of contents should be well sign-posted for ease of use.

How is a TOC made?

When creating or editing documents in Wikipedia, you will have to know the Wiki formatting language. This is known as wikimarkup or wikitext, and it can be a bit of a learning curve if you have never used it before.

Step-by-Step Process for Creating a Table of Contents for a Wikipedia Article

You will need to add a TOC manually on the editing page in order to see an overview of the contents of the Wikipedia article.

Steps

1. Create a new wiki page. If one has already been created, go into edit mode. Here you can create section headings for your TOC as well as edit links that will build the article’s credibility.
2. Write your article if you haven’t done so already. Come up with section titles for the different information you are presenting. These titles will be used later to make Headers.
3. Place the cursor where you want the table of contents to be displayed. Place this close to the top of the page and within the first section of the article so people can find it easily.
4. In the editor toolbar, click the macros list. If it is not available, contact the Wikis administrator to enable it.
5. Select Table of Contents to add a table of contents to the page.
6. Alternatively, you can type the code [TOC] at the top of your document. This lets the editing tool know that you are creating a table of contents.
7. Use headers to organize the page. Each section and subsection should have a heading, and this will show up in the table of contents.
8. Save the article and see your new table of contents!

Helpful Tips For Making a TOC

• If you want some practice with editing a Wikipedia document, click here for the template TOC page on Wikipedia.
• There are different types of headings you can use in your article. ‘Header 1’ or ‘H1’ is reserved for the title. Use ‘Header 2’ or ‘H2’ for big sections. Divide these into subjections by using ‘Header 3’, ‘Header 4’, etc.
• When creating headings, use the tags <h2> (Heading 2), <h3> (Heading 3), <h4> (Heading 4), etc before the title to denote the section or subsection.
• Unless the article is very long, you won’t need to divide it into too many subsections. Take a look at similar articles and see how they lay out their table of contents.

Hire an Expert

When creating a Wikipedia site you agree to the terms of Wikipedia. You must be unbiased and avoid conflicts of interest, so it is best to get another person to write about yourself or your company. Need help creating a Wikipedia page and table of contents? Hire WikiCreators. Our experts will create and maintain unbiased, verifiable, and quality Wikipedia articles for you or your business.