Difference between revisions of "Adding a link"

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  "The <nowiki>[[Adding a link]][http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website]</nowiki>".  
 
  "The <nowiki>[[Adding a link]][http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website]</nowiki>".  
 
   
 
   
  "The <nowiki>[[The guide to adding a link]] [http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website]".
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  "The <nowiki>[[The guide to adding a link]] [http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website]".</nowiki>
  
  
 
=Internal links=
 
=Internal links=
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Linking to an internal page (notice the double brackets as opposed to the single brackets in the external link examples?):
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<nowiki>[[Introduction]]</nowiki>
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now looks like this:
  
Linking to an internal page (notice the double brackets as opposed to the single brackets in the external link examples?):
 
 
[[Introduction]]
 
[[Introduction]]
[http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link]
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After pasting your link, you would then hit the spacebar once and then write the title of the link.
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Link containing text different from the title page you are referencing (example: Maybe you don't want to say "Introduction" as it does not read well, but you DO want it to link to the Introduction page):
  "The <nowiki>[[Adding a link]][http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website]</nowiki>".
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"Welcome to our Freecycle wiki page where you can learn all about why we are here. Let me <nowiki>[[Introduction|introduce]]</nowiki> myself, who we are and what we do!"
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Your page will look like this when completed with the proper wiki lingo; the brackets AND the bar *|*.  Notice this bar is NOT the capital letter "I" or lowercase "l". The bar is normally found above the *\* bar.
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"Welcome to our Freecycle wiki page where you can learn all about why we are here.  Let me [[Introduction|introduce]] myself, who we are and what we do!"
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"The <nowiki>[[The guide to adding a link]] [http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website]".
 
 
  
 
If you're really having way too much fun working on your section of the wiki, but would like wiki tools to assist, check
 
If you're really having way too much fun working on your section of the wiki, but would like wiki tools to assist, check
 
[[Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools|here]]
 
[[Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools|here]]

Revision as of 14:38, 20 October 2009

External links

Link with no text (the code needed and an example):

[http://example.com/]

[1]

Link containing text: The guide to adding a link example.com website</nowiki>

The guide to adding a link

After pasting your link, you would then hit the spacebar once and then write the title of the link.

"The [[Adding a link]][http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website]". 

"The [[The guide to adding a link]] [http://example.com/ The guide to adding a link website]".


Internal links

Linking to an internal page (notice the double brackets as opposed to the single brackets in the external link examples?):

[[Introduction]]

now looks like this:

Introduction


Link containing text different from the title page you are referencing (example: Maybe you don't want to say "Introduction" as it does not read well, but you DO want it to link to the Introduction page):

"Welcome to our Freecycle wiki page where you can learn all about why we are here. Let me [[Introduction|introduce]] myself, who we are and what we do!"


Your page will look like this when completed with the proper wiki lingo; the brackets AND the bar *|*. Notice this bar is NOT the capital letter "I" or lowercase "l". The bar is normally found above the *\* bar.


"Welcome to our Freecycle wiki page where you can learn all about why we are here. Let me introduce myself, who we are and what we do!"


If you're really having way too much fun working on your section of the wiki, but would like wiki tools to assist, check here