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!Link format | !Link format | ||
!Looks like | !Looks like | ||
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|Basic link to article title (see capitalization info below). | |||
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<nowiki>[[wiki]]</nowiki> | <nowiki>[[wiki]]</nowiki> | ||
|[[wiki]] | |[[wiki]] | ||
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|Plurals and other suffixes adjacent to the link display as part of the link. | |||
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<nowiki>[[wiki]]s</nowiki> | <nowiki>[[wiki]]s</nowiki> | ||
|[[wiki]]s | |[[wiki]]s | ||
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|Adjacent suffixes display as part of the link, but not prefixes. | |||
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<nowiki>re[[wiki]]fication</nowiki> | <nowiki>re[[wiki]]fication</nowiki> | ||
|re[[wiki]]fication | |re[[wiki]]fication | ||
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|Piping: Display the text after the vertical bar as the link text. | |||
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<nowiki>[[wiki|some wiki software]]</nowiki> | <nowiki>[[wiki|some wiki software]]</nowiki> | ||
|[[wiki|some wiki software]] | |[[wiki|some wiki software]] | ||
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|URL displayed as link ("external link" icon appears automatically for all URL links). | |||
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<nowiki>http://www.collada.org</nowiki> | <nowiki>http://www.collada.org</nowiki> | ||
|http://www.collada.org | |http://www.collada.org | ||
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|URL displayed as automatically incremented number; particularly useful for references within an article. | |||
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<nowiki>[http://www.collada.org]</nowiki> | <nowiki>[http://www.collada.org]</nowiki><BR><nowiki>[http://www.khronos.org]</nowiki> | ||
|[http://www.collada.org] | |[http://www.collada.org]<BR>[http://www.khronos.org] | ||
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|Text following URL displayed as link. | |||
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<nowiki>[http://www.collada.org Collada web site]</nowiki> | <nowiki>[http://www.collada.org Collada web site]</nowiki> | ||
|[http://www.collada.org Collada web site] | |[http://www.collada.org Collada web site] | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Full [[namespace]] title displayed as link. | |||
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<nowiki>[[Help:Adding a new article]]</nowiki> | <nowiki>[[Help:Adding a new article]]</nowiki> | ||
|[[Help:Adding a new article]] | |[[Help:Adding a new article]] | ||
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|Shortcut to suppress [[namespace]] when displaying link. | |||
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<nowiki>[[Help:Adding a new article|]]</nowiki> | <nowiki>[[Help:Adding a new article|]]</nowiki> | ||
Revision as of 00:59, 24 April 2007
A Wiki link is an easily formatted link to other articles within the wiki or external to the wiki site.
Examples
You can either use the name of an article as a link, or you can pipe the link so that text appears that is different from the article's title. Links to external sites are formatted--and appear--slightly differently.
| Description | Link format | Looks like |
|---|---|---|
| Basic link to article title (see capitalization info below). |
[[wiki]] |
wiki |
| Plurals and other suffixes adjacent to the link display as part of the link. |
[[wiki]]s |
wikis |
| Adjacent suffixes display as part of the link, but not prefixes. |
re[[wiki]]fication |
rewikification |
| Piping: Display the text after the vertical bar as the link text. |
[[wiki|some wiki software]] |
some wiki software |
| URL displayed as link ("external link" icon appears automatically for all URL links). |
http://www.collada.org |
http://www.collada.org |
| URL displayed as automatically incremented number; particularly useful for references within an article. |
[http://www.collada.org] |
[1] [2] |
| Text following URL displayed as link. |
[http://www.collada.org Collada web site] |
Collada web site |
| Full namespace title displayed as link. |
[[Help:Adding a new article]] |
Help:Adding a new article |
| Shortcut to suppress namespace when displaying link. |
[[Help:Adding a new article|]] |
Adding a new article |
Capitalization
The wiki software is somewhat sensitive to capitalization:
- To make it easier to use article titles in sentences, the first character of a title is not case sensitive; for example, wiki and Wiki go to the same article; so do runtime database and Runtime database.
- The rest of the letters are case sensitive. For example, COLLADA and coLLada do not go to the same article; neither do runtime database and Runtime Database.