ADDING LINKS

 

Let's link it all together

If you look at my wiki page, you will see some words are colored red, while others are colored blue. Some even have a symbol on their direct right. These are links to other pages. These other pages can be inside the wiki, or outside. If they are outside, you will see the symbol on their direct right.

Wiki has a very simple way of creating links, far simpler than HTML.

To create a link to another article inside the wiki, simply put the text between double square brackets like so:
[[this is a link]]. The browser will interpret this as a link to the wiki article called this is a link.

Of course, sometimes you'd rather not show the linked page, but something else. We then use a so-called piped link that looks like this: [[Stuff|this is a link]]. The browser will display this is a link, but the link will point to the wiki article called Stuff. Please note that wiki articles are case sensitive...

To create a link to an outside page, simply put the text in single square brackets like so:
[http://www.google.com Google me!]. The browser will display everything after the first space character (in this case: Google me!), but it will point to the single URL before that first space character (in this case: http://www.google.com. Remember, an URL cannot hold spaces, they get replaced with %27...

It's also good to remember that article names are case-sensitive when link to an article inside the wiki.