Linking to other pages
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There are two sorts of links in Cookipedia:
- internal links to other pages in the wiki
- external links to websites
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 effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).
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 | [[#More advanced]]
(Will link to the heading More advanced) |
#More advanced |
Anchor link at another page | [[What is an article#How do I access these templates?]]
(Will link to the heading How do I access these templates?) |
What is an article#How do I access these templates? |
Category link | [[:Category:Help]] | Category:Help |
Internal link to image file | [[media:example.jpg]] | media:example.jpg |
Internal link to pdf file | [[media:example.pdf]] | media:example.pdf |
Interwiki link | [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]] | Wikipedia:MediaWiki |
mailto link | [mailto:info@example.org email me] | email me |
redirect | #REDIRECT [[Main Page]] | → Main Page |
External link to video file (.avi, .mpg) | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.avi .avi] | .avi |
External link to sound file (.mp3, .ogg, .wav) | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.wav .wav] | .wav |
External link to a document (.doc, .pdf) | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.doc .doc] | .doc |
More advanced
Description | You type | You get |
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 to an external link.
To avoid that effect, put the URL between <nowiki> start & end tags as in:
<nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki>