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{{PD Help Page}}
 
There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:  
 
There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:  
 
# internal links to other pages in the wiki
 
# internal links to other pages in the wiki
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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.
  
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).
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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).
  
 
== How to link ==
 
== How to link ==
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|<tt><nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>
 
|<tt><nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>
 
|[[Main Page]]
 
|[[Main Page]]
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|-
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|Category link
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|<tt><nowiki>[[:Category:Help]]</nowiki></tt>
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|[[:Category:Help]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Piped link  
 
|Piped link  
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|<tt><nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki></tt>
 
|<tt><nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki></tt>
 
|http://mediawiki.org
 
|http://mediawiki.org
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|-
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|Internal link to image file
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|<tt><nowiki>[[media:example.jpg]]</nowiki></tt>
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|[[media:example.jpg]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
|External link,<br />
 
|External link,<br />
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|<tt><nowiki>[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]</nowiki></tt>
 
|<tt><nowiki>[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]</nowiki></tt>
 
|[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
 
|[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
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|-
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|Piped link,<br />
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different title
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|<tt><nowiki>[[Main Page|<span title="different title">different text</span>]]</nowiki></tt>
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|[[Main Page|<span title="different title">different text</span>]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
|External link,<br />
 
|External link,<br />
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|<tt><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></tt>
 
|<tt><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></tt>
 
|[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]
 
|[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]
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|-
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|mailto
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|<tt><nowiki>mailto:info@example.org</nowiki></tt>
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|mailto:info@example.org
 
|-
 
|-
 
|mailto unnamed
 
|mailto unnamed
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|<tt><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org info]</nowiki></tt>
 
|<tt><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org info]</nowiki></tt>
 
|[mailto:info@example.org info]
 
|[mailto:info@example.org info]
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|-
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|mailto named with subject line
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|<tt><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject info]</nowiki></tt>
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|[mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject info]
 
|-
 
|-
 
|redirect
 
|redirect
 
|<tt><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>
 
|<tt><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>
| -> [[Main Page]]
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| &rarr; [[Main Page]]
 
|}
 
|}
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{{admin tip|tip=
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Which protocols (like http:) are allowed for links is controlled by the [[Manual:$wgUrlProtocols|$wgUrlProtocols]] setting.
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}}
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{{admin tip|tip=
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To remove the 'external link image' from next to each of the external links, add the following to the page located at <code>MediaWiki:Monobook.css</code> on your wiki.
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<pre>
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#bodyContent a.external,
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#bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] {
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        background: none;
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        padding-right: 0;
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}
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</pre>
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}}
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== See also ==
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* [[Help:Linked images|Linked images]]
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== External links ==
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{{meta|Help:Link}}
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{{Languages|Help:Links}}
  
 
[[Category:Help|Links]]
 
[[Category:Help|Links]]
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[[Category:Link]]

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