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Find link tool: a simple tool that lets you search for articles to consider adding links to. MediaWiki help page on links; Help:Link color: the color of a link shows the status of the corresponding target page. Help:Pipe trick: uses the pipe character ("|") to save typing the label of a piped link.
Enter text in the search field that you seek to create as a page title. If the title you entered does not already exist, is not technically restricted and is not creation protected , the resulting page will i) tell you that it does not exist; ii) advise that you can create the page, and iii) will provide a red link to the page title.
Wikipedia:Wiki-Link Game – fun with the Random article feature; Wikipedia:Enhanced Random Article – custom script; randomlink.js – tool to follow a random link or go to a random page in a category, list or WikiProject; Special:RandomInCategory; Template:Random page in category; Wikimedia sister projects. Wikiversity:Random; Wiktionary ...
Dab solver (links to disambiguation pages) Checklinks (unavailable) (check and correct other links) ProveIt (addition of citations and references) Open access bot (add open access links to citations) MW (Firefox Ubiquity script. It uses the MediaWiki API to suggest and insert an internal link.) Additional tools which use OAuth can be found on ...
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.
Under Site search, click Add and choose a name and keyword for Wikipedia search. (for example, the keyword can be "wiki") (for example, the keyword can be "wiki") You will use the keyword in the address bar to search Wikipedia directly by typing the keyword and then either tab or space depending on your settings.
Although no actual link is added (which would be superfluous because we have already an internal or interwiki link), it is recorded as external link, and therefore Linksearch can find it. Since Linksearch allows specifying the first part of an anchor, it is useful, if anchor names are numerical or have a numerical end, to use leading zeros.
The name of the template is Search link, or sl for short. The second and third parameters are optional and have defaults, so the short form is {{sl|query}}. Both a search link and a search box go to the same search engine. The same query produces the same result. The basic search covers articles.