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Linking through hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. Internal links bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Interwikimedia links bind the project to sister projects such as Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikipedia in other languages, and external links bind Wikipedia to the World Wide Web.
Interproject links: By adding a prefix to another Wikimedia project, internal link style ("prefixed internal link style") can be used to link to a page of another project. A system of short-handed link labels is used to refer to different projects, in the context of interproject linking, as seen within the actual source text.
Pages on Wikipedia can link to equivalent pages in other languages. The English article on Spain includes a link to the Spanish article España in the "Languages" list, and vice versa. These links are primarily maintained in Wikidata and can be overridden in rare cases using local links in the text of the page. Using Wikidata is the preferred ...
When using the WikEd source editor, selectable from Preferences > Gadgets > Editing, there is a "Wiki link" button (typically the first button on the bottom row). When editing, if some text is highlighted, clicking the Wiki link button will enclose it in double brackets, i.e., Wikilink it. If, however, some text is highlighted that includes one ...
The {{}} template creates inline links to Wiktionary by default for each word separately to a page that matches that word, within the supplied text. Other wikis can be specified and thus interlanguage Wikipedias or interwiki links can be created.
The markup language called wikitext, also known as wiki markup or wikicode, consists of the syntax and keywords used by the MediaWiki software to format a page. (Note the lowercase spelling of these terms.
* {{Wiktionary-inline}} produces a link to the Wiktionary definition of the page title. Notice: The first letter of each word is turned to lower case. Pass a parameter explicitly if it's not what you want. * {{Wiktionary-inline|word}} Produces a link to word on Wiktionary: The dictionary definition of word at Wiktionary
To link to a web page on another website, the process is similar: Choose the "External site" tab, and enter a URL in the box. External links without labels look like this: . You can add these by placing your cursor to the right of the text to which the link is related. Open the link tool by clicking on the button or pressing the shortcut keys.