Help:Links

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There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:

1. internal links to other pages in the wiki
2. external links to other websites
3. interwiki links to other websites registered to the wiki in advance
4. Interlanguage links to other websites registered as other language versions of the wiki

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, it it does not, 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, 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	preMain Page/pre	Main Page
Piped link	predifferent text/pre	different text
Redirect	pre#REDIRECT Main Page/pre See also Help:Redirects	rarr; Main Page
Internal link to an anchor	pre#See also/pre Section headings and the top of the page are automatically anchored.	#See also
Internal link to an anchor at another page	preHelp:Images#See also/pre	Help:Images#See also
Internal link to a category page	preCategory:Help/pre See also Help:Categories	Category:Help
Internal link to an image or a file of other types	premedia:example.jpg media:example.pdf/pre See also Help:Images	media:example.jpg media:example.pdf

External links

Description	You type	You get
External link	prehttp://mediawiki.org/pre	http://mediawiki.org
External link with different label	preMediaWiki/pre	MediaWiki
External link numbered	pre[1]/pre	[2]
External link icons	pre video sound document /pre External link icons may differ depending on the file type of the target.	video sound document
External link to the same host	pre[3]/pre	[4]
External link to other host passing the pagename	pre[5]/pre	[6]
Mailto link	preemail me/pre	email me
Mailto named with subject line and body	preinfo/pre	info

Tip for wiki admins: Which protocols (like http:) are allowed for links is controlled by the {{ #ifeq: tighar.org

www.mediawiki.org

$wgUrlProtocols

$wgUrlProtocols }}!--Should these admin tips even be here? This is supposed to be end user help is it not? -- setting.

Tip for wiki admins: To remove the “external link icons“ from next to each of the external links, add the following to the page located at codeMediaWiki:Monobook.css/code on your wiki. source lang=css bodyContent a.external, bodyContent a[href ^=gopher://] { background: none; padding-right: 0; } /source

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 lt;nowikigt; tags as in:

prelt;nowikihttp://mediawiki.org/nowiki/pre

Interwiki links

Interwiki links are links with the internal link markup to a website registered in advance. For example, you can link to the Sunflower article on http://en.wikipedia.org by typing codenowikiwikipedia:Sunflower/nowiki/code, which will result in a link wikipedia:Sunflower. This is because codenowikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//nowiki/code is registered to your wiki by default with the prefix of codewikipedia/code. This link may not work properly, if the admin of your wiki has changed the setting.

Similar to internal page links, you can create piped links, with alternate link label, e.g. codenowikibig yellow flower/nowiki/code.

Basically this is an abbreviation for longer URLs. A very similar link could be created as a normal external link by typing codenowikiSunflower/nowiki/code, but interwiki links allow you to type out an easy and compact link, almost as if you are linking to a page on your own wiki.

Tip for wiki admins: See {{ #ifeq: tighar.org

www.mediawiki.org

Manual:Interwiki

Manual:Interwiki }} for the management of interwiki links of your wiki.

Interlanguage links

If your wiki has other language versions, you may find “interlanguage links” in the sidebar, just below toolbox in the box named “in other languages.”

Interlanguage links behave similar to interwiki links, except that they are listed in the sidebar. To create an interlanguage link from a page, just type codenowiki/nowikilanguage prefix:pagename/code wherever you like in the page; the language prefix is the prefix specified at your wiki for the other language version (typically the ISO language code).

If you want to make the interlanguage link to appear in the content of the page, you can add a colon before the language prefix, e. g. codenowikien:Sunflower/nowiki/code.

See also

• Linked images