Help:Links
There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:
- internal links to other pages in the wiki
- external links to websites
- interwiki 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.
Generally, it is best practice to link only the first instance of a word on a page.
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).
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How to link
| Description | You type | You get |
| Internal link | [[Main Page]] | Main Page |
| Piped link | [[Main Page|different text]] | different text |
| External link | http://mediawiki.org | http://mediawiki.org |
| External link, different title | [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] | MediaWiki |
| External link, numbered | [http://mediawiki.org] | [1] |
| Anchor link | [[#See also]] | #See also |
| Category link | [[:Category:Help]] | Category:Help |
| Internal link to image file | [[media:example.jpg]] | media:example.jpg |
| Interwiki link | [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]] | Wikipedia:MediaWiki |
| mailto link | [mailto:info@example.org email me] | email me |
| redirect | #REDIRECT [[Main Page]] | → Main Page |
More advanced
| Description | You type | You get |
| Piped link, different title | [[Main Page|<span title="different title">different text</span>]] | different text |
| External link, same host unnamed | [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename] | [2] |
| 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 in an external link.
To avoid that effect, put the URL between <nowiki> start & end tags as in:
<nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki>
Interwiki links
Interwiki links are links from the local wiki to another wiki. Which sites are available for linking in this way depend on your local configuration.
How to link
Interwiki links are formatted like so:
[[interwikisitename:page]]or
[[interwikisitename:page|display]]
Examples
