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This formats an example wikilink to show how it would be entered in wiki markup. The first parameter is the link destination. E.g. {{elc|Cookie}} renders as [[Cookie]], the wiki markup for the wikilink Cookie.
Template parameters [Edit template data]. Parameter Description Type Status; Page: 1: Internal page to link. Example Special:RecentChanges: String: required: Text: 2 ...
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.
For example, to append action=edit to a URL query string you could use [{{fullurl:Help:Link|action=history}} this page's history], which renders as this page's history. Note that this will render as an external link rather than as an internal link and for this reason it might not appear in what-links-here queries associated with the target page.
If you want to link to an article, but display some other text for the link, you can use a pipe | divider (⇧ Shift+\): [[target page|display text]] You can also link to a specific section of a page using a hash #: [[Target page#Target section|display text]] Here are some examples: [[link]] displays as link
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Comparison of template-linking templates according to the styles of generated text and link produced Text style ↓ {{}} options [note 1]to achieve text style Link style
This template displays various category link templates and their output on an example input. It takes no parameters. Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox ( create | mirror ) and testcases ( create ) pages.