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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 :
Makes wikilinks clickable in the output window; contributed to the public domain by IceKarma on April 22, 2005.. Installation: Copy the code below into a file called wikilinks.js somewhere convenient (download raw source).
A wikilink needs a [[fullpagename]], and this is not optional except when it links to or from a subpage. A wikilink to its parent page is [[../]], and, although no page name is given, the fullpagename is rendered. On the parent a wikilink to a subpage can use [[/subpagename]] to render a subpagename instead.
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.
How to use bold and italics: Text formatting: 2010-09: 0:55: Beginner How to make a wikilink: Text formatting: 2020-11: 1:24: Beginner Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons (using the Upload Wizard) Images: 2011-03: 2:48: Beginner Category explanation and how to use the HotCat gadget (WikiProject Categories) Categories: 2010-03: 5:45: Intermediate
There is a long-standing bug in the MediaWiki software such that auto-piping does not work in galleries - see the second image in .Trick to work around: spoil the <gallery> tag, e.g. delete the < temporarily; do your edits using auto piping and save the page; re-edit to restore the <gallery> tag.
A wikilink connects to another page on the encyclopedia and ties the whole thing together. In general, wikilinks should be added for the first occurrence of important concepts for the topic that are not commonly used English words or major countries/cities. Links can be added through the menu, or by using the shortcut Ctrl+K.
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