Help: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, 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://www.barbershopwiki.com | http://www.barbershopwiki.com |
| External link, different title |
[http://www.barbershopwiki.com Barbershop Wiki Project] | Barbershop Wiki Project |
| External link, numbered |
[http://www.barbershopwiki.com] | [1] |
| Anchor link | [[#See also]] | #See also |
| Anchor link at another page | [[Help:Images#See also]] | Help:Images#See also |
| Category link | [[:Category:Quartets]] | Category:Quartets |
| Internal link to image file | [[media:example.jpg]] | media:example.jpg |
| Internal link to pdf file | [[media:example.pdf]] | media:example.pdf |
| mailto link | [mailto:[email protected] email me] | email me |
| redirect | #REDIRECT [[Main Page]] | → Main Page |
| External link to video file (.avi, .mpg) | [www.barbershopwiki.com/.avi .avi] | .avi |
| External link to sound file (.mp3, .ogg, .wav) | [http://www.barbershopwiki.com/.wav .wav] | .wav |
| External link to a document (.doc, .pdf) | [http://www.barbershopwiki.com/.doc .doc] | .doc |
More advanced
| Description | You type | You get |
| Piped link, different title |
[[Main Page|<span title="different title">different text</span>]] | different text |
| External link, same host unnamed |
[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename] | [2] |
| External link, other host, pass pagename |
[http://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}] | [3] |
| mailto named with subject line and body | [mailto:[email protected]?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>