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How to make links Simple Rule Pages inside the wiki Within a Page URLs and Inline Images Example Display How to redirect a page When to make links to non-existent pages Advanced Users

How to make links

Simple Rule

For pages inside the wiki, use brackets with quotes. For pages outside the wiki, use brackets without quotes.

Pages inside the wiki

If you enclose a sequence of characters in square brackets and double quotes ["like this"], that makes it a page name. To have it display with alternative text, write it ["like this" with the display stuff here].

Within a Page

First you must set an 'anchor'. So, say you're on the coffee section of a page. You place an anchor here with the label coffee by putting [[Anchor(coffee)]] by that area. Then you can create a link to that section by putting [#coffee Text for the link here] wherever you'd like on the page. Clicking on the link will take you directly to that section. For example: There has been an anchor with the label end placed at the very end of this page. If I write [#end the end of the page!] it displays as: the end of the page! Go ahead and click on it :)

URLs and Inline Images

There are several ways to insert external references¹ into the text:

• direct URL insertion; if the URL ends in an image extension (".gif", ".jpg" or ".png"), the URL is converted to an image tag.
• bracketed URLs.
• email addresses.

If you enter URLs into normal text, there is the problem of detecting what belongs to the URL and what not. There are four ways to force the ending of an URL:

• put a space after the URL.
• use the bracketed URL syntax.

The supported URL schemes are: http, https, ftp, nntp, news, mailto, telnet, and file.

Example

 * http://daviswiki.org

 * [http://daviswiki.org]

 * [http://daviswiki.org Davis Wiki - The best place on the Internet]

 * http://daviswiki.org/coolfiles/circleblack.png

 * [http://daviswiki.org/circleblack.png]

 * [http://daviswiki.org/circleblack.png our old logo]

 * ["A Page In The Wiki"]

 * ["A Page In The Wiki" blah blah]

 * jh@web.de

 * [#anchorname Anchor Link]

Display

• http://daviswiki.org
• http://daviswiki.org
• Davis Wiki - The best place on the Internet
• 
• 
• our old logo
• A Page In The Wiki
• blah blah
• jh@web.de
• Anchor Link

How to redirect a page

To have a page redirect to another page, simply put the line:

#redirect A Page In The Wiki

as the first line of the page you want to redirect to A Page In The Wiki. So putting that line in any page, at the top, will make that page redirect to A Page In The Wiki.

• Unless you've got a really good reason, please keep redirects around even if they're not being linked to. This is important because it makes it easier for people in the future to link to pages within the wiki, as well as keeps links from other websites working well into the future.

When to make links to non-existent pages

Link to a (non-existant) page only when you think it would be a good page for us to have here. Links should be made to places where useful information could go. It's okay to have links to nowhere, but links should be kept reasonable.

So, when you make a page, say Central Park, you should do a search to see what pages refer to "central park". Then change the links on those pages appropriately and reasonably. This means that you should just use words like "park" liberally and without linking them if the place doesn't exist yet.

If the place does exist, then it's your call whether to link to it when you refer to it.

Advanced Users

If you feel like you understand wiki editing fairly well, you might want to use Interwiki Links to link to other wikis with. It gives you a cool wiki community icon, and leads people to other wiki community projects.