Wikipedia:Shortcut
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A shortcut on Wikipedia is a quick way of getting to Category:Wikimedia, guidelines and project pages. They are shown in boxes to the right of the pages which they go to. You can type them in the Go box on the left of the page to get there easily.
Basically, a shortcut is a redirect page where the page title is a short term used often.