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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.
In software distribution and software development, a README file contains information about the other files in a directory or archive of computer software. A form of documentation , it is usually a simple plain text file called README , Read Me , READ.ME , README.txt , [ 1 ] or README.md (to indicate the use of Markdown )
For the effect that links have on date formatting, see Help:Date formatting and linking. Another link-dependent feature is related changes, which make it possible to view recent changes to all pages which are linked from the current page (or which are members of the category, if it is a category page).
You can "deep link" to a section of an article (or other Wikipedia page), using a hash character (#), then the section's title, with underscore characters (_) replacing spaces.
3) If there's an internal link to another article. For example, suppose you add this to an article: " Name of person , a historian who has written extensively about this period, said quotation ." You don't have to document who this person is, because the reader can follow the internal link to the Wikipedia article about the person.
Linking to existing Wikipedia pages is done by placing doubled square brackets around the name of the page. Thus, [[Wikipedia]] produces Wikipedia . A useful expansion of this is done by separating what you want linked , from what you want displayed , with a pipe character ("|"), to create a " piped link ".
The "What links here" page does not display how many backlinks exist in total. The number of links displayed at one time is limited – initially to 50, although there are links to change this to certain other values. (Different values can be obtained by editing the URL resulting from clicking these links, but the maximum possible value is 5,000.)