Help:Links
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Thaur's five types o links in MediaWiki:
- Internal links til ither pages in the wiki
- Ootby links til ither wabsteids
- Ootby links til internal pages in the wiki
- Interwiki links til ither wabsteids registert til the wiki in advance
- Interleid links til ither wabsteids registert aes ither leid versions o the wiki
- External links to pages at other websites
- External links to internal pages in the same wiki
- Interwiki links to other websites using special prefixes registered in advance
- Interlanguage links to other wikis registered as different language versions of the current wiki
Please note that this list does not include category links and file links, which are used to place pages into categories and display images or other media files, respectively.
Internal links
To create a so-called internal link to a page on the same wiki (a "wikilink"), use double square brackets wiki markup, [[like this]]. When you preview or save your changes, you will see a link that can be followed to the target page.
If the page exists the link is displayed in blue (like the word "create" in the first sentence of this paragraph); if the page does not exist, the link appears red (so the [[like this]] link is actually rendered like this). Note that the colors could be different if the color scheme of the wiki has been changed from the default.
Following such a "redlink" to a missing page (whether or not it is actually red) will usually enable the user to create the page.
To markup any arbitrary string of text (not necessarily a page title) as a link, use a "vertical bar" or "pipe" character, like this: [[Help:Categories|category links]] results in the link category links.
The first letter o the tairget page is autæmateeclie capitalised, onless itherwise set bi the admeens, n spaces ar represented aes unnerscores (typin aen unnerscore in the link will hae ae siclike effect aes typin ae space, bit isna recommendit, aes the unnerscore will be shawn in the tex ava).
If the page title you are linking to is that of the page you are editing, the result is not a hyperlink at all but simply bold text (for example, on this page the markup [[Help:Links/sco]] gives the result Help:Links/sco).
If you're trying to create a wikilink to the current page, you probably want to link to a specific section or to an anchor within the page; see the examples below.
MediaWiki uses the pagelinks table to keep track of internal wikilinks.
| Name/Descreeption | Syntax | Result |
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| Internal link | [[Main Page]]
[[Help:Contents]]
[[Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)]]
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| Piped link |
[[Help:Editing pages|editing help]]
Links to a section/anchor within the target page. [[Help:Editing pages#Preview|previewing]]
Internal link til aen ancher fae differant tex [[#See also|different text]]
See foreby meta:Help:Piped link. |
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| Pipe trick | [[Manual:Extensions|]]
[[User:John Doe|]]
[[Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)|]]
[[Extension:DynamicPageList (third-party)|]]
The transformation done by the pipe trick can result in the same text for different link targets, as seen in the DynamicPageList examples. |
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| Waird-endin links | [[Help]]s
[[Help]]ing
[[Help]]ers
[[Help]]almostanylettersyoulikehere
[[Help]]BUTnotalways
Follows so-called "linktrail rules" localised per each language. |
Helpalmostanylettersyoulikehere HelpBUTnotalways |
| Avoidin waird-endin links | [[Help]]<nowiki />ful advice
[[wikipedia:GNU General Public License|GPL]]<nowiki />v3
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Helpful advice GPLv3 |
| Internal link til aen ancher | [[#See also]]
Anchors are provided automatically on section headings and to the top ( |
#See also |
| Settin aen internal link ancher | <div id="Unique anchor name 1">optional text</div>
<span id="Unique anchor name 2">optional text</span>
Rendered block-level and inline, respectively.
Doing this would allow for Setting an anchor in a section heading ==<span id="Alternate Section Title"></span>Section heading==
Note the placement. This must be a "span" tag, not a "div". (Such anchors allow sections to be retitled without breaking incoming links.) |
optional text
optional text |
| Link til aen ancher oan anither page | [[Help:Images#Supported media types for images]]
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Help:Images#Supported media types for images |
| Link til the nou page's tauk page | [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|Discussion]]
See Mageec wairds#Page names ava. |
Discussion |
| Link til ae subpage | [[/example]]
Shortcut for |
/example |
| Link til ae subpage wioot the leadin slash | [[/example/]]
Shortcut for |
example |
| Link to a subpage of parent page for current page. Can only be used on subpages. | [[../example2]]
Shortcut for |
example2 |
| Internal link til ae categerie page | [[:Category:Help]]
Without the leading colon the link would not be visible and the page would instead be placed into the category; this is a very common mistake. See Help:Categeries ava. |
Category:Help |
| Internal link til aen eemage or ae file o ither types | [[:File:Example.jpg]]
[[:File:Example.jpg|file label]]
[[Media:Example.jpg]]
[[Media:Example.jpg|file label]]
Without the leading colon on the "File:" examples, the images would actually be displayed. See also Help:Images. The |
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| Internal link til the uiser's uiser page | [[Special:MyPage]]
[[Special:MyTalk]]
[[Special:Preferences]]
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| Internal link to a specific revision | [[Special:PermanentLink/2393992]]
Revision numbers can be found in each page's edit history. (It is very common to see links to specific revisions implemented as external links because it's easy to cut-and-paste an entire URL to form an external link.) |
Special:PermanentLink/2393992 |
| Internal link to a "diff" | [[Special:Diff/2393992]]
[[Special:Diff/2390639/2393992]]
The default (in the first example above) is to show the changes from the previous revision. See also the comments in the previous item. |
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| Reguidal | #REDIRECT [[Main Page]] Should be the first and only line on the page. See Help:Redirects. |
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Ootby links
Tae add aen external link, enclaise the URL follaed bi space n the name o the page that ye want tae link til in single square brackets. Whan ye hain the page, ye'll see the new link pointin til yer page, wi ae triangle icon efter it tae shaw that it wis coded wi single bracket external link syntax, n thus micht lead til anither steid.
| Descreeption | Ye type | Ye get |
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| Ootby link wi differant label | [https://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] |
MediaWiki |
| Nummered ootby link | [https://mediawiki.org] This is what happens if you omit the link text. Multiple links of this type on the same page are numbered sequentially. |
[1] |
| Ootby link | https://mediawiki.org URLs beginning with " |
https://mediawiki.org |
| Avoiding auto-linked URLs | <nowiki>https://mediawiki.org</nowiki>
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https://mediawiki.org |
| Protocol-relative external link | [//en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] [//en.wikipedia.org //en.wikipedia.org] The link will be HTTP or HTTPS depending on the protocol of the page currently being viewed (which could be different for different users).
This is only supported inside of square brackets |
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| Ootby link til the same host | https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename
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https://www.mediawiki.org/pagename |
| Ootby link til ither host passin the pagename | https://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}
See also: URL encoded page names, Manual:PAGENAMEE encoding |
https://google.com/search?q=Links |
| Mailtil link | [mailto:info@example.org email me] |
email me |
| Mailtil named wi subject line n bodie | [mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&body=Body%20Text info] |
info |
| Custom URI | [skype:echo123 call me] Any URI you wish to add needs to be first declared through $wgUrlProtocols. (This example is not enabled on MediaWiki.org) |
[skype:echo123 call me] |
Ootby links til internal pages
Tae add ae link til ae page oan the same wiki uisin URL speirin boonds, ye micht need tae uise ootby link syntax.
| Descreeption | Ye type | Ye get |
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| Ootby link til the nou page's eedit page | [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Links&action=edit Edit this page]
[{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} Edit this page]
See Mageec wairds n Ootby links ava |
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| Ootby link til the nou page's eedit page, n styled tae luik like aen internal link | <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Links&action=edit Edit this page]</span>
The plainlinks class can be uised in cases whaur ye want aen ootby link tae luik like aen internal link, bi suppressin the icon that normallie kiths efter it. |
Edit this page |
Limitations
- External links doesn't support Word-ending links.
- External links doesn't count toward Special:WhatLinksHere (What links here).
Interwiki links
Interwiki links ar links wi the internal link maurkup til ae wabsteid registerit in advance. Fer example, ye can link til the Sunflower airticle oan http://en.wikipedia.org bi typin [[wikipedia:Sunflower]], this will ootcome in ae link wikipedia:Sunflower. This is cause http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ is registerit til yer wiki bi defaut wi the prefix o wikipedia. (This link micht na wairk richt gif the admeen o yer wiki haes chynged the settin.) Onlike internal links, interwiki links dinna uise page exeestance detection, sae aen interwiki link will kith aes blue even gif the page disna exeest oan the remote wiki.
For example, you can link to the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower by typing [[wikipedia:Sunflower]] or, on this wiki, the shorter [[w:Sunflower]].
Both will result in a link wikipedia:Sunflower.
This works because by default MediaWiki configures wikipedia: as an "interwiki prefix" that turns into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ when used inside [[ ]].
(It may not work if the admin of your wiki has changed the setting.) Unlike internal links, interwiki links do not use page existence detection, so an interwiki link will appear blue even if the page does not exist on the remote wiki.
Siclike til internal page links, ye can cræft piped links, wi alternate link label, e.g. [[wikipedia:Sunflower|muckle yellae flouer]] is the link muckle yellae flouer n [[wikipedia:Sunflower|]] is the link Sunflower.
Basiclie, interwiki links ar abbreeveeations fer commynlie uised langer external links. Ae fair siclike link coud be cræftit aes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower muckle yellae flouer].
Mair details ar at Manual:Interwiki n Help:Interwiki linkin. See the defaut interwiki prefixes. Tae eedit the interwiki buird oan yer steid.
Interleid links
If your wiki has other language versions, you may find interlanguage links in the sidebar, just below toolbox in a section titled “in ither leids.”
In wiki markup an interlanguage link looks very much like an interwiki link, but behaves similarly to a category link in that it is rendered in a special way. While category links appear in a special list at the bottom of the page (usually), interlanguage links appear in a special list in the sidebar of the page (or elsewhere, depending on the wiki's configuration and the skin used).
The purpose of interlanguage links is to link pages on the same topics in different languages. To create an interlanguage link, type [[language prefix:page name]] anywhere in the page (preferably at the bottom, like category links); the language prefix is the prefix specified at your wiki for the other language version (typically the ISO 639-1 language code).
The interlanguage link is unilateral, it does not point back from that page in the other language.
For that purpose, an equivalent back-link needs to be placed there as well.
It does not work like the "Edit links" in the languages section of Wikipedia-language versions.
But it can be used across all name spaces, including 'User:' to point to ones other profiles in other languages.
Gif ye want tae get the interleid link tae kith in the content o the page raither than in the sidebaur, ye can add ae colon afore the leid prefix:
[[:en:Sunflower]]→ en:Sunflower
Whan ae link is baith interwiki n interleid, the order is wikipedia:en:Sunflower.
For more information, see m:Help:Interwiki linking#Interlanguage links.
Limits
An internal wiki link is limited by maximum page title size.