Help:Links
There are several types of links on MediaWiki.
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]] See also Meta:Help:Piped link |
different text |
| word-ending links | [[Help]]s [[Help]]ing [[Help]]ers [[Help]]anylettersyoulikehere |
|
| 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 from different text | [[#See also|different text]] |
different text |
| Setting an internal link anchor | <div id="NameOfAnchorHere">optional text</div> Omit the "optional text" for invisible anchor. |
optional text
|
| 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 the current page's edit page | [{{fullurl:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} Edit]
See also Help:Magic_words#URL_data and #External links |
Edit |
| Internal link to a subpage | [[/example]] Shortcut for [[Help:Links/example]]. See also Help:Subpages. |
/example |
| Internal link to a subpage without the leading slash | [[/example/]] Shortcut for [[Help:Links/example|example]]. |
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 |
| Internal link to the user's user page | [[Special:MyPage]] |
Special:MyPage |
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 |
| Numbered external link | [http://mediawiki.org] | [1] |
| External links with file icons |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.avi video]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ogg sound]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pdf document]
Currently supported extensions: ogm, avi, mpeg, mpg (video); ogg, mid, midi, mp3, wav, wma (audio); and pdf (document) |
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| External link to the same host | http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename | http://shadowlack.com/pagename |
| External link to other host passing the pagename | http://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}} | http://google.com/search?q=Links |
| Mailto link | [mailto:info@example.org email me] | email me |
| Mailto named with subject line and body | [mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&body=Body%20Text info] | info |
How to avoid auto-links
By default, when you write a URL as is, it will be transformed to an external link.
To avoid that effect, put the URL between <nowiki> tags as in:
<nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki>
