How To Make Links: Difference between revisions

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Standard Linking

To create links to another page one simply has to add the following code to the page:

[[Page Name]]

Where the Page Name is whatever the specific search term you're looking to define.

Another useful process that is slightly more advanced is creating links with a different name than the actual path. (i.e: you want to link to the "How to make links" page but you dont want the text itself to show up as How_to_make_links).

To accomplish the above, and link to this page without using the actual path as the text for the link itself we would write the following code:

[[Page Name|Alternate link text]]

The above code would still link to the page but would now appears as "Alternate link text" with a link to this page instead of the rather unsightly actual path.

Using this method you can create links to various pages within the wiki and still make it look clean and less like actual code, this helps keep the wiki pretty and less confusing and cumbersome to casual users.

Wiki also handles pluralized links intelligently. For instance, a link called

[[Pyreal]]s

displays as the link (Pyreals) even though the page name is still just Pyreal.

Interwiki Linking

Interwiki linking is a means of linking to articles on certain other mediawiki wikis. No external link arrow graphic will be displayed as is normally the case for external URLs.

Link to an article on another Wikia wiki by using:

[[w:c:domain:Article Name|Article Name]]

Where domain is the particular wiki, for example ours is asheron (from asheron.wikia.com).

prefix	destination URL	usage example	actual link
wikianswers	http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/Wikianswers	`[[w:c:wikianswers:Wikianswers\|Wikianswers]]`	Wikianswers
wikianswers	http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Asheron%27s_Call	`[[w:c:gaming:Asheron's Call\|Asheron's Call on Wikia Gaming]]`	Asheron's Call on Wikia Gaming
Wikia Developers Wiki	http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Developers_Wiki	`[[w:c:dev:Wikia Developers Wiki\|Wikia Developers Wiki]]`	Wikia Developers Wiki
wikianswers	http://www.wowwiki.com/Portal:Main	`[[w:c:wowwiki:Portal:Main\|WoWwiki]]`	WoWwiki

Several Wikimedia-Projects (and others) are ready for interwiki linking. The following are some examples of interwiki prefixes which are available by default:

prefix	destination URL	usage example	actual link
commons	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/	`[[commons:MediaWiki\|Mediawiki Commons]]`	Mediawiki Commons
mediazilla	http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/	`[[mediazilla:1209\|Mediazilla]]`	Mediazilla
mediawikiwiki	http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/	`[[mediawikiwiki:Help:Contents\|Mediawiki Help]]`	Mediawiki Help
wikibooks	http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/	`[[wikibooks:Main Page\|Wikibooks]]`	Wikibooks
wikimedia	http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/	`[[wikimedia:Main Page\|Wikimedia]]`	Wikimedia
wikinews	http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/	`[[wikinews:Main Page\|Wikinews]]`	Wikinews
wikiquote	http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/	`[[wikiquote:Main Page\|Wikiquote]]`	Wikiquote
wikisource	http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/	`[[wikisource:Main Page\|Wikisource]]`	Wikisource
wikispecies	http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/	`[[wikispecies:Main Page\|Wikispecies]]`	Wikispecies
wiktionary	http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/	`[[wiktionary:Main Page\|Wictionary]]`	Wictionary
wikipedia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/	`[[wikipedia:Main Page\|Wikipedia]]`	Wikipedia

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+== Standard Linking ==
 To create links to another page one simply has to add the following code to the page:
@@ Line 15: / Line 16: @@
 ----
-<code><nowiki>[[Page Name | Alternate link text]]</nowiki></code>
+<code><nowiki>[[Page Name|Alternate link text]]</nowiki></code>
 ----
@@ Line 24: / Line 25: @@
 Wiki also handles pluralized links intelligently.  For instance, a link called
-<code><nowiki>[[Monkey]]s</nowiki></code>
+<code><nowiki>[[Pyreal]]s</nowiki></code>
-displays as the link ([[Monkey]]s) even though the page name is still just Monkey.
+displays as the link ([[Pyreal]]s) even though the page name is still just Pyreal.
+== Interwiki Linking ==
+Interwiki linking is a means of linking to articles on certain other mediawiki wikis. No external link arrow graphic will be displayed as is normally the case for external URLs.
+Link to an article on another Wikia wiki by using:
+<pre>
+[[w:c:domain:Article Name|Article Name]]
+</pre>
+Where ''domain'' is the particular wiki, for example ours is ''asheron'' (from <nowiki>asheron.wikia.com</nowiki>).
+{|border=1
+|align="center"|'''prefix'''
+|align="center"|'''destination URL'''
+|align="center"|'''usage example'''
+|align="center"|'''actual link'''
+|-
+|wikianswers
+|<nowiki>http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/Wikianswers</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[w:c:wikianswers:Wikianswers|Wikianswers]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[w:c:wikianswers:Wikianswers|Wikianswers]]
+|-
+|wikianswers
+|<nowiki>http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Asheron%27s_Call</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[w:c:gaming:Asheron's Call|Asheron's Call on Wikia Gaming]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[w:c:gaming:Asheron's Call|Asheron's Call on Wikia Gaming]]
+|-
+|Wikia Developers Wiki
+|<nowiki>http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Developers_Wiki</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[w:c:dev:Wikia Developers Wiki|Wikia Developers Wiki]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[w:c:dev:Wikia Developers Wiki|Wikia Developers Wiki]]
+|-
+|wikianswers
+|<nowiki>http://www.wowwiki.com/Portal:Main</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[w:c:wowwiki:Portal:Main|WoWwiki]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[w:c:wowwiki:Portal:Main|WoWwiki]]
+|-
+|}
+Several Wikimedia-Projects (and others) are ready for interwiki linking. The following are some examples of interwiki prefixes which are available by default:
+{|border=1
+|align="center"|'''prefix'''
+|align="center"|'''destination URL'''
+|align="center"|'''usage example'''
+|align="center"|'''actual link'''
+|-
+|commons
+|<nowiki>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[commons:MediaWiki|Mediawiki Commons]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[commons:MediaWiki|Mediawiki Commons]]
+|-
+|mediazilla
+|<nowiki>http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[mediazilla:1209|Mediazilla]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[mediazilla:1209|Mediazilla]]
+|-
+|mediawikiwiki
+|<nowiki>http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[mediawikiwiki:Help:Contents|Mediawiki Help]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[mediawikiwiki:Help:Contents|Mediawiki Help]]
+|-
+|wikibooks
+|<nowiki>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[wikibooks:Main Page|Wikibooks]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[wikibooks:Main Page|Wikibooks]]
+|-
+|wikimedia
+|<nowiki>http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[wikimedia:Main Page|Wikimedia]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[wikimedia:Main Page|Wikimedia]]
+|-
+|wikinews
+|<nowiki>http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[wikinews:Main Page|Wikinews]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[wikinews:Main Page|Wikinews]]
+|-
+|wikiquote
+|<nowiki>http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[wikiquote:Main Page|Wikiquote]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[wikiquote:Main Page|Wikiquote]]
+|-
+|wikisource
+|<nowiki>http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[wikisource:Main Page|Wikisource]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[wikisource:Main Page|Wikisource]]
+|-
+|wikispecies
+|<nowiki>http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/</nowiki>
+|<code><nowiki>[[wikispecies:Main Page|Wikispecies]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[wikispecies:Main Page|Wikispecies]]
+|-
+|wiktionary
+|<nowiki>http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/</nowiki>
+|<code>  <nowiki>[[wiktionary:Main Page|Wictionary]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[wiktionary:Main Page|Wictionary]]
+|-
+|wikipedia
+|<nowiki>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</nowiki>
+|<code>  <nowiki>[[wikipedia:Main Page|Wikipedia]]</nowiki></code>
+|[[wikipedia:Main Page|Wikipedia]]
+|-
+|}
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