Help:Link
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[edit]Important announcement for my students. Tflanagan (WMF) (talk) 14:16, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Help:Link
[edit]On wikis using the MediaWiki software, a link is created by placing page titles or URLs inside double square brackets or single square brackets. This help page explains the basic kinds of links that can be added when editing with VisualEditor or the classic wikitext editor.[1]
Internal links
[edit]Internal links connect pages within the same wiki. To link to another page, enclose its title in double square brackets:
[[Help:Link]] [[Turku]] [[Formal languages]]
This will display as:
You can also use a piped link to show different text from the actual page title:
[[Help:Link|link help]] [[Automata theory|automata]]
which appears as link help and automata. Piped links are useful when the visible text needs to be shorter or grammatically integrated into a sentence.[2]
External links
[edit]External links point to pages outside the wiki. They are written with single square brackets and include a full URL, optionally followed by the label:
[https://www.example.org] [https://www.example.org Example site]
The first form shows a numbered link; the second shows the label "Example site".[1]
Interlanguage and interwiki links
[edit]Many projects support links to other language editions or sister projects. For example:
[[de:Automatentheorie]] [[wikt:link]]
These forms depend on local configuration and may be managed automatically by tools like Wikidata on some projects.[3]
Links in templates and TemplateData
[edit]When using templates, parameters often accept links as values:
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Arto Salomaa
| fields = [[Mathematics]]<br>[[Computer science]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Turku]]
}}
TemplateData allows template authors to describe these parameters so that VisualEditor can present user‑friendly forms. For example, a parameter may be marked as "wiki-page-name", prompting the editor to enter a link to another page rather than plain text.[4]
See also
[edit]- 1 2 "Help:Link". Wikipedia. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ "Help:Menu/Links". Wikipedia. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ "Help:Link (Simple English)". Simple English Wikipedia. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ "Wikipedia:VisualEditor/TemplateData". Wikipedia. Retrieved 2025-12-08.