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A wikilink (or internal link) is a link from one page to another page within the English Wikipedia, or, more generally, within the same Wikipedia (e.g. within the French Wikipedia), in other words: within the same domain, or, even more generally, within the same Wikimedia project (e.g. within Wiktionary).
Though a wikilink defaults to displaying the title of the target article, it is possible to choose more specific or more appropriate display text for the intended context. This can be done with the use of the pipe character (|). For example, [[Henry II of England|Henry II]] displays as Henry II.
A wikilink only works in Wikipedia, and some other wikis if it has the right interwiki prefix. Here are some examples showing how to wikilink from a Wikipedia page, to a specific version of a page . Note the oldid part of the permanent link, and write your own Wikicode :
Wikilinks allows an article to be pointed to by enclosing the article's title in square brackets. This allows the editor to link to another article without having to type in the URL of the article or enclose it in HTML anchor tags. This article is an attempt to gather information supporting the assertion that wikilinks are harmful to Wikipedia ...
You are, of course, welcome to use Wikipedia content on your own website instead of linking to it, because Wikipedia content uses an open licence (CC-by-SA 3.0). If you wish to do that, our page on reusing Wikipedia content has further advice. If you wish to cite Wikipedia in your work, see Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
Terminology is an organization's way to communicate quickly. The terms "fullpagename" and "pagename" in italics specify the variable type, for example:
It is possible to make a wikilink to the "What links here" list for a particular page; to do this type [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Page name]], replacing Page name with the title of the target page. (The same text, without the square brackets, can also be entered in the search box, to access "What links here" for any page title.)
To link to a Wikipedia article in a particular language inline (as opposed to the links in the sidebar), use [[:language code:Title]]. To link to a page on a different project in a particular language, expand the above syntax with a code for the project from the table below in § Prefix codes for linking to projects , as in [[:project:language ...