Help:Links
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There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:
- internal links to other pages in the wiki
- external links to other websites
- interwiki links to other websites registered to the wiki in advance
- Interlanguage links to other websites registered as other language versions of the wiki
Internal links
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, if it does not, in red. Selflinks to the current page are not transformed in URLs but displayed in bold. (If you really want to link to the current page, use an anchor (see below), or [[#top|current page]] which always links to the top.)
The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized, unless otherwise set by the admins, 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).
| Description | You type | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Internal link | [[Main Page]] | Main Page |
| Piped link | [[Main Page|different text]] | different text |
| Redirect | #REDIRECT [[Main Page]] See also Help:Redirects | → Main Page |
| Internal link to an anchor | [[#See also]] Section headings and the top of the page are automatically anchored. | #See also |
| Internal link to an anchor at another page | [[Help:Images#See also]] | Help:Images#See also |
| Internal link to the current page's talk page | [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|Discussion]]
See also Help:Magic_words#Page_names | Discussion |
| Internal link to a subpage | [[/example]] Shortcut for [[Help:Links/example]]. See also Help:Subpages. | /example |
| Internal link to a category page | [[:Category:Help]] See also Help:Categories | Category:Help |
| Internal link to an image or a file of other types | [[media:example.jpg]] [[media:example.pdf]] See also Help:Images | media:example.jpg |
External links
| Description | You type | You get |
|---|---|---|
| External link | http://mediawiki.org | http://mediawiki.org |
| External link with different label | [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] | MediaWiki |
| External link numbered | [http://mediawiki.org] | [1] |
| External link icons | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.avi video] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.wav sound] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pdf document] External link icons may differ depending on the file type of the target. | |
| External link to the same host | [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]
| [2] |
| External link to other host passing the pagename | [http://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}]
| [3] |
| Mailto link | [mailto:info@example.org email me] | email me |
