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This page explains how to make links to pages on Wikipedia (wikilinks), to other Wikimedia projects (interwiki links), and to other websites (external...
Click to read more »[[Special:Permalink/oldid]] or [[Special:Redirect/revision/oldid]] can be used to make a wikilink when this is preferred over a URL. oldid is the revision number in the...
Click to read more »activate editing mode Toolbar basics The tools at your disposal Links and wikilinks Connect pages up to each other Publishing changes Make it so Creating...
Click to read more »pages within Wikipedia (or other Wikimedia projects) are normally made as wikilinks or interwikilinks, using the [[...]] syntax described at Help:Link. However...
Click to read more »File: swim video. There are three semantic differences from the normal wikilink syntax when working with a file page: [[File:pagename]] will transclude...
Click to read more »for accessibility reasons. Wikilinks are used in wikitext markup to produce internal links between pages. You create wikilinks by putting double square...
Click to read more »These are sometimes referred to as backlinks. It is possible to make a wikilink to the "What links here" list for a particular page; to do this type...
Click to read more »rationale for not printing navigation boxes is that these items contain wikilinks that are of no use to print readers. (See User talk:Ruud Koot/2010#Do...
Click to read more »page. Caution: Attempting to use (some) page name variables to create a wikilink to an image page, category page or interlanguage link will produce a different...
Click to read more »page into the target page once and permanently. Similarly to creating a wikilink using double square brackets ([[Pagename]]), a page can be transcluded...
Click to read more »they may go to the wrong section or citation if you click the mouse on a wikilink. Checking that a page contains valid HTML can thus fix these minor glitches...
Click to read more »redirect page if its wikitext begins with #REDIRECT followed by a valid wikilink or interwikilink. A space is usually left before the link. (Note that some...
Click to read more »Editing pages Activate editing mode Formatting Keeping it tidy Wikilinks Connect pages to each other Saving your changes Publishing Creating new articles...
Click to read more »Editing pages Activate editing mode Formatting Keeping it tidy Wikilinks Connect pages to each other Saving your changes Publishing Creating new articles...
Click to read more »editing: a six-part guide to editing: Editing pages; Formatting; Links and wikilinks; Saving your changes; Creating new articles; and Summary. Introduction...
Click to read more »More often, the double-bracket notation [[ ]] is used to denote a wp:wikilink (or hyperlink) connecting to another page. See also: {{Bracket}} and Wikipedia:Manual...
Click to read more »to create a working wikilink to a related article. This error occurs when any of these |<param>-link= parameters contain a wikilink or a URL, or they contain...
Click to read more »Interlanguage links are links from a Wikipedia article in one language to a corresponding page in another language. These links are accessible through...
Click to read more »error no link label group gets classed as a reference, so you can't use a wikilink in the message to link to a help page The reference list is an ordered...
Click to read more »makes extensive use of "wikilinks", those blue links in an article that lead to some other related article. To make a wikilink, surround the term you want...
Click to read more »activate editing mode Toolbar basics The tools at your disposal Links and wikilinks Connect pages up to each other Publishing changes Make it so Creating...
Click to read more »get there, type "Template:foo" in the search box (see search), or make a wikilink like [[Template:foo]] somewhere, such as in the sandbox, and click on it...
Click to read more »activate editing mode Toolbar basics The tools at your disposal Links and wikilinks Connect pages up to each other Publishing changes Make it so Creating...
Click to read more »are used to entering wikitext directly, especially bold, italics and wikilinks. Keyboard shortcuts allow to quickly insert similar formatting without...
Click to read more »which require special URL parameters and therefore cannot be reached by wikilinks. The arrow icon can be suppressed by: Placing the external link syntax...
Click to read more »be an article about something, but there isn't, create the wikilink anyway. If the wikilink turns red, showing that such an article doesn't exist, then...
Click to read more »names is that they give you no clue, when you see them in an index or wikilink, as to who the person is. So avoid this approach. Check the disambiguation...
Click to read more »Style sections on bold and italic formatting. Wikilinks are one of the key components of Wikipedia. Wikilinks connect pages to each other, tying the whole...
Click to read more »edit summaries, and they are not indexed by external search engines. Wikilinks always rendered; other wikitext coding ignored. Edit summaries render...
Click to read more »-0.25em; } This fixes a cosmetic issue with Internet Explorer where a wikilink followed immediately by an in-text cite may cause the link and cite to...
Click to read more »category links. Similarly, you should try to add appropriate wikilinks in the article. Add wikilinks to other articles that aid navigation and understanding...
Click to read more »Editing pages Activate editing mode Formatting Keeping it tidy Wikilinks Connect pages to each other Saving your changes Publishing Creating new articles...
Click to read more »browsers, and displays an audio player. For example, here is a [[File:]] wikilink to a MIDI file: . {{Audio}} can also be used for an inline player e.g....
Click to read more »activate editing mode Toolbar basics The tools at your disposal Links and wikilinks Connect pages up to each other Publishing changes Make it so Creating...
Click to read more »error no link label group gets classed as a reference, so you can't use a wikilink in the message to link to a help page The reference list is an ordered...
Click to read more »Add more wikilinks and check their validity (but don't overlink; see the box about when to link). Note: The fastest way to check new wikilinks is to put...
Click to read more »colon: [[:Category:Category name]]. Such a link can be piped like a normal wikilink. (The {{cl}} template, and others listed on its documentation page, may...
Click to read more »There is a page named "Page name" (a wikilink to an existing page) Did you mean: spelling correction (either a wikilink or a search-link) You may create the...
Click to read more »two—where this is not contentious) Fixing layout errors Adding or correcting wikilinks, or fixing broken external links and references already present in the...
Click to read more »another article links to that section heading. Wikilinks from one article to another are very common; wikilinks from an article to a section of another article...
Click to read more »itself notable and has a Wikipedia article, the title can be wikilinked. Wikilinking the title will make it impossible to use the "url" parameter to link...
Click to read more »[[Trademark|™]] at that point. The displayed page will therefore contain the wikilink "™". For example, type The trademark symbol is {{TM}} and you will see...
Click to read more »aspects of the rdcheck report. There are three categories of redirected wikilinks: #REDIRECT[[pagename]] that redirect to pagename #REDIRECT[[pagename#section]]...
Click to read more »Editing pages Activate editing mode Formatting Keeping it tidy Wikilinks Connect pages to each other Saving your changes Publishing Creating new articles...
Click to read more »contains special characters. Links (particularly wikilinks) are one of the key components of Wikipedia. A wikilink connects to another page on the encyclopedia...
Click to read more »are common on talk pages, typically more common than fully spelled-out wikilinks. While a shortcut like [[WP:NPOV]] may not have any obvious meaning to...
Click to read more »same heading more than once on a page causes problems: An internal link (wikilink) to a section, in the form [[Article name#Section heading]], will link...
Click to read more »activate editing mode Toolbar basics The tools at your disposal Links and wikilinks Connect pages up to each other Publishing changes Make it so Creating...
Click to read more »activate editing mode Toolbar basics The tools at your disposal Links and wikilinks Connect pages up to each other Publishing changes Make it so Creating...
Click to read more »Editing pages Activate editing mode Formatting Keeping it tidy Wikilinks Connect pages to each other Saving your changes Publishing Creating new articles...
Click to read more »top. Keep in mind that syntax for full URL links is different than for Wikilinks. Here is an example: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php...
Click to read more »hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. Internal links (or "wikilinks") bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Links provide...
Click to read more »[[Article name|other name]] Double square brackets create internal links (wikilinks), which are hyperlinks between pages in Wikipedia. They're described in...
Click to read more »to display on more than one line. Use span instead. Remember that all wikilinks show up as bold black text on the page they link to. So if you are testing...
Click to read more »that readers understand what they're looking at. Captions can contain wikilinks and formatting, just like the main text of a page. Alternative text is...
Click to read more »file|thumb|Caption]] In a gallery, you must remove all brackets ("[" or "]") (except in wikilinks embedded within captions). You must also remove all options except for...
Click to read more »understand the sentences. For technical or medical terms, please include a "wikilink" the first time the term is mentioned. Conflict of Interest (COI): Many...
Click to read more »"Revision history" is appended to the page name. Notice that you cannot make wikilinks to this extended page name. To make a link to the history page, copy the...
Click to read more »Editing pages Activate editing mode Formatting Keeping it tidy Wikilinks Connect pages to each other Saving your changes Publishing Creating new articles...
Click to read more »for this purpose. These templates allow wikitext (e.g., regular text, wikilinks, allowed HTML code, references, and other templates) to be included on...
Click to read more »or audio generated by the Score extension, you can provide a [[File:]] wikilink to it after the closing </score> tag. <score> {c' d' e' f' g' fis' es'...
Click to read more »Editing pages Activate editing mode Formatting Keeping it tidy Wikilinks Connect pages to each other Saving your changes Publishing Creating new articles...
Click to read more »interwiki table (IIRC); w, q, b, wikt etc. are used like interlanguage wikilinks to link to the sisterproject in the same language (so w:it:b: is equivalent...
Click to read more »the title or at the bottom of the infobox (for "see also", footnotes, wikilink to "list of" article, etc.) Displaying a second image Displaying images...
Click to read more »activate editing mode Toolbar basics The tools at your disposal Links and wikilinks Connect pages up to each other Publishing changes Make it so Creating...
Click to read more »affected elements (text, hatnotes, headings, infoboxes, tables, lists, wikilinks, categories, references, external links, images, audio, animations, video...
Click to read more »editing with VisualEditor. Opening the editor. Toolbar basics. Links and Wikilinks. Saving your changes. Summary. Referencing with VisualEditor – a five...
Click to read more »activate editing mode Toolbar basics The tools at your disposal Links and wikilinks Connect pages up to each other Publishing changes Make it so Creating...
Click to read more »Editing pages Activate editing mode Formatting Keeping it tidy Wikilinks Connect pages to each other Saving your changes Publishing Creating new articles...
Click to read more »semicolon. ;Chapter name Adding an article An article is inserted as a wikilink after a colon. :[[Article]] Renaming an article You can use a pipe ('|')...
Click to read more »Template:Annotated image 4. These templates allow wikitext (e.g., regular text, wikilinks, and reference templates) to be included on the image itself. They may...
Click to read more »However, some pages cannot be transcluded and would produce only a wikilink (e.g., {{Special:Random}} → Special:Random). When non-existent pages are...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Local Embassy Wikilink when and where you are able. Keep the original page open in another tab, so that you may click on Wikilinks or categories that...
Click to read more »pressing the new section tab. If you have a question about a specific page, wikilink to it (put paired square brackets on either side of the page name). Do...
Click to read more »subject of the new article. On those other pages, change the plain text to a wikilink to the new article (The best way to do this is with http://edwardbetts...
Click to read more »edit summaries include wikilinks (in blue) within the edit summaries. Wikilinks in edit summaries work the same way as wikilinks in articles, and you create...
Click to read more »template. When you do find the category, it will look just like an article wikilink: [[Category:Whatever]]. Note: If the template is protected from editing...
Click to read more »neutral point of view. Lists need to be about notable things. Red links (wikilinks to non-existent articles, which show as red instead of blue) are allowed...
Click to read more »caption can be styled (with inline, not block, CSS), and may include wikilinks, reference citations, etc. Many article editors dislike table captions...
Click to read more »That only works in the Reply tool. If you are editing the wikitext directly, you must use this template or manually create a wikilink to their user page....
Click to read more »Name of a Wikipedia article. The wikilink for that article is Salvo D'Acquisto, and the URL is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvo_D'Acquisto. See Wikipedia:Page...
Click to read more »you are assuming good faith Avoid using the preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable...
Click to read more »Therefore: Be prepared to look at related pages to establish context; Follow wikilinks for unfamiliar terms, to orient yourself; To find additional related topics...
Click to read more »you are assuming good faith Avoid using the preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable...
Click to read more »you are assuming good faith Avoid using the preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable...
Click to read more »Some messages must have HTML links, and others must have wikilinks. To find out which is which, you must know where the message is used in the interface...
Click to read more »you are assuming good faith Avoid using the preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable...
Click to read more »URL-style wikilinks to a page. Collapsed navlinks are not reported by linksto, but they are reported by WhatLinksHere. Linksto reports wikilinks to a page...
Click to read more »you are assuming good faith Avoid using the preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable...
Click to read more »might object. If you can cite a relevant policy or guideline, do so. Wikilinks in edit summaries do work, as in this example: Removing information that...
Click to read more »about creating a personal sandbox); then add wikilinks for the pages of interest. You can add wikilinks in a number of ways. For example, you can add...
Click to read more »software places the text in the signature box in the second half of a piped wikilink, displaying what Wikipedia thinks is your nickname. 2. In the signature...
Click to read more »Select/remove specific item from string {{delink}}, {{trim brackets}} Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode); all or outer only. {{Plain text}} Removes wikicode...
Click to read more »Style sections on bold and italic formatting. Wikilinks are one of the key components of Wikipedia. Wikilinks connect pages to each other, tying the whole...
Click to read more »you are assuming good faith Avoid using the preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable...
Click to read more »example of how it works: Suppose you're looking at article A, which has wikilinks to articles X, Y, and Z. Clicking the "Related changes" link displays...
Click to read more »hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. Internal links (or "wikilinks") bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Links provide...
Click to read more »you are assuming good faith Avoid using the preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable...
Click to read more »that readers understand what they're looking at. Captions can contain wikilinks and formatting, just like the main text of a page. Alternative text is...
Click to read more »contains special characters. Links (particularly wikilinks) are one of the key components of Wikipedia. A wikilink connects to another page on the encyclopedia...
Click to read more »attribute can only contain plain text (no HTML or wiki markup such as wikilinks) without line breaks. The alt text is read by screen readers before the...
Click to read more »'dog pipe'? (The MT version Draft:Mänkeri also has confusing errors in wikilinking, eg. the word 'liru' on fi.wiki correctly links to fi:Liru, an article...
Click to read more »contains=@wikiTop sy region wikiLink start="\[\[" end="\]\]\(s\|'s\|es\|ing\|\)" oneline contains=wikiLink,wikiNowiki,wikiNowikiEndTag sy region wikiLink start="https\...
Click to read more »Collapsible list? (Sorry, couldn't figure out how to properly use the wikilink. Maybe "Collapsible list" doesn't have a Discussion Page.) 67.182.237.57...
Click to read more »two things, mainly: linking important concepts in your article with a wikilink, so it links to other articles, and: finding other, related articles, and...
Click to read more »to just 300. This is a good example of the subtle interaction between wikilinking and prose. "War" and "persecution" are probably misleading, even in summary...
Click to read more »you are assuming good faith Avoid using the preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable...
Click to read more »you are assuming good faith Avoid using the preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable...
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