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Reverted edits by Acaxiqity (Talk) to last revision by Reddick

Acaxiqity at 01:17, 18 November 2010

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Reddick at 16:43, 30 August 2007

2007-08-30T16:43:40Z

Reddick at 13:38, 30 August 2007

2007-08-30T13:38:01Z

New page

There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:
# internal links to other pages in the wiki
# external links to websites
# [[Help:Interwiki linking|inter-wiki links]] (links to other wikis)
# inter-language links to other language versions of the same wiki

To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already, it is displayed in blue, empty pages are displayed in red. Selflinks to the current page are not transformed in URLs but displayed in bold.

The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).

== How to link ==
{| {{Prettytable}}
|-
|{{Hl3}}|'''Description'''
|{{Hl3}}|'''You type'''
|{{Hl3}}|'''You get'''
|-
|Internal link
|<tt><nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[Main Page]]
|-
|Category link
|<tt><nowiki>[[:Category:Help]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[:Category:Help]]
|-
|Piped link
|<tt><nowiki>[[Main Page|different text]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[Main Page|different text]]
|-
|Anchor link
|<tt><nowiki>[[#External links|Anchor link]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[#External links|Anchor link]]
|-
|External link
|<tt><nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki></tt>
|http://mediawiki.org
|-
|External link from internal image
|<tt><nowiki>[http://targetURL {{Server}}/wiki/images/imagelocation</nowiki></tt>
|Internal image
|-
|External link,<br />
different title
|<tt><nowiki>[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]</nowiki></tt>
|[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
|-
|External link,<br />
unnamed
|<tt><nowiki>[http://mediawiki.org]</nowiki></tt>
|[http://mediawiki.org]
|-
|External link,<br />
same host unnamed
|<tt><nowiki>[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]</nowiki></tt>
|[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]
|-
|Interwiki link
|<tt><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]
|-
|mailto
|<tt><nowiki>mailto:info@example.org</nowiki></tt>
|mailto:info@example.org
|-
|mailto unnamed
|<tt><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org]</nowiki></tt>
|[mailto:info@example.org]
|-
|mailto named
|<tt><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org info]</nowiki></tt>
|[mailto:info@example.org info]
|-
|redirect
|<tt><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>
| → [[Main Page]]
|}

== External links ==
{{meta|Help:Link}}

{{Languages|Help:Links}}

[[Category:Help|Links]]
[[Category:Link]]

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 The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).
->== How to link ==
+== How to link ==
 {| {{Prettytable}}
 |-
@@ Line 17: / Line 17: @@
 |-
 |Internal link
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[[Main Page]]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>
 |[[Main Page]]
 |-
 |Category link
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[[:Category:Help]]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[[:Category:Help]]</nowiki></tt>
 |[[:Category:Help]]
 |-
 |Piped link
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[[Main Page|different text]]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[[Main Page|different text]]</nowiki></tt>
 |[[Main Page|different text]]
 |-
 |Anchor link
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[[#External links|Anchor link]]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[[#External links|Anchor link]]</nowiki></tt>
 |[[#External links|Anchor link]]
 |-
 |External link
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;http://mediawiki.org&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki></tt>
 |http://mediawiki.org
 |-
 |External link from internal image
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[http://targetURL {{Server}}/wiki/images/imagelocation&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[http://targetURL {{Server}}/wiki/images/imagelocation</nowiki></tt>
 |Internal image
 |-
-|External link,&lt;br /&gt;
+|External link,<br />
 different title
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]</nowiki></tt>
 |[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
 |-
-|External link,&lt;br /&gt;
+|External link,<br />
 unnamed
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[http://mediawiki.org]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[http://mediawiki.org]</nowiki></tt>
 |[http://mediawiki.org]
 |-
-|External link,&lt;br /&gt;
+|External link,<br />
 same host unnamed
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]</nowiki></tt>
 |[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]
 |-
 |Interwiki link
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></tt>
 |[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]
 |-
 |mailto
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;mailto:info@example.org&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>mailto:info@example.org</nowiki></tt>
 |mailto:info@example.org
 |-
 |mailto unnamed
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[mailto:info@example.org]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org]</nowiki></tt>
 |[mailto:info@example.org]
 |-
 |mailto named
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;[mailto:info@example.org info]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org info]</nowiki></tt>
 |[mailto:info@example.org info]
 |-
 |redirect
-|&lt;tt&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;#REDIRECT [[Main Page]]&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+|<tt><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>
-| &amp;rarr; [[Main Page]]
+| &rarr; [[Main Page]]
 |}
 == External links ==