Help:Hyperlinks

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This article shows you how interlink your pages.

Symbols

The link symbols are the square bracket: [ ]

To link to articles, use the double square brackets: [[ ]].

For URLs, single brackets are used: [ ]

The pipe symbol ( | ) is the separator between the page name and the text to display for internal links.

A link in external link style can be of the forms:

• target: http://meta.wikimedia.org/ is rendered as http://meta.wikimedia.org/
• [ target label ], with a blank space in between: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wikimedia] which gives wikimedia
• [ target ] - these are automatically labelled with serial numbers 1, 2, 3, ...: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/] gives [1]

The target is a URL which can start with "http://" or "ftp://";

"file://" does not work by default. If enabled it only works in MSIE. To enable it, add a $wgUrlProtocols entry to LocalSettings.php; see the $wgUrlProtocols in DefaultSettings.php for example.

How to create hyperlinks

You can use the Internal Link button from the Edit Toolbar to insert a link on the page.

To manualy create a link, enclose the URL within square brackets ( [[ ]] ).

• To link to a page on the wiki, use "[[Page_Name]] "
  
• Use " [URL Text to display]" for external links.
  

Linking to a page

Based on a URL

[http://location/url Text to display]
http://WikiURL/Category:Page_name
http://WikiURL/Page_name
WikiURL on this site is {{SERVER}}/Joomla/components/com_joomlawiki/index.php/

See more on wikipedia.

Within this wiki

[[Page_Name]]
[[Namespace:Page_Name]]

Linking to a heading on a page

  
http://WikiURL/Category:Page_name#heading

Within this wiki

[[Namespace:Article]]
[[Target page#Target section|display text]] 
{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Page_name#Section}}
[[Namespace:Article#heading|display text]]

On the same page

The variables construct that refer to the page is {{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}.
The # pound sign is the section tag. #On the same page would link to this section when you insert it on this page.

[[#Section_title]]

The fully qualified path is

{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}#Section_title

Linking to the table of contents

[[page#toc#]]

Liking to a special page

Special pages can be opened with {{Special:PageName}}.

Linking to a category

Place a colon before the keyword Category

 [[:Category:Category_name]]
 [[:Category:Category_name|Display text]]

Viewing a list of all categories

The list of all categories is in Special:Categories

[[Category:Categories]] (the standard top-level category provided by the MediaWiki software) 
returns null in this setup. Use [[Special:Categories|Special:Categories]]

Linking to special pages

{{Help:Special pages}}