Help:Links: Difference between revisions

From YSTV History Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
mNo edit summary
 
(3 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:  
There are two sorts of links in MediaWiki:  
# internal links to other pages in the wiki
# internal links to other pages in the wiki
# external links to websites
# 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.
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.
Line 10: Line 8:


== How to link ==
== How to link ==
{| {{Prettytable}}
{| {{PrettytableCenter}}
|-
|-
|{{Hl3}}|'''Description'''
|{{Hl3}}|'''Description'''
Line 46: Line 44:
|<tt><nowiki>[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]</nowiki></tt>
|<tt><nowiki>[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]</nowiki></tt>
|[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]
|[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]
|-
|Interwiki link
|<tt><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]
|-
|-
|mailto unnamed
|mailto unnamed

Latest revision as of 14:54, 28 February 2007

There are two sorts of links in MediaWiki:

  1. internal links to other pages in the wiki
  2. external links to websites

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 affect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).

How to link

Description You type You get
Internal link [[Main Page]] Main Page
Piped link [[Main Page|different text]] different text
Anchor link [[#External links|Anchor link]] Anchor link
External link http://mediawiki.org http://mediawiki.org
External link,

different title

[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] MediaWiki
External link,

unnamed

[http://mediawiki.org] [1]
External link,

same host unnamed

[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename] [2]
mailto unnamed [mailto:info@example.org] [3]
mailto named [mailto:info@example.org info] info
redirect #REDIRECT [[Main Page]] -> Main Page