Help:Linking
Links (sometimes called hyperlinks) are all over the web. You probably followed one to find this page.
To add a link to another wiki page, type [[, then the page name, then ]].
[[Main Page]]
If you want to link to the page but don't want to type in the exact name of the page, add a | between the page name and the ]], and then write what you want the text to be.
[[Help Talk:Contents|The discussion page]]
To link to a page on Wikipedia, add Wikipedia: to your page name.
[[Wikipedia:Half-Life 2|Half-Life 2 on Wikipedia]]
There are other websites you can link to as well. See here for a full list.
To link to somewhere outside of the wiki, type [, then the URL, followed by a space, the text you want to describe the link, and then ].
[https://www.google.com/ External link to Google]
You can also just directly paste in a URL, but it doesn't look as nice
A URL pointing to an image will display that image on a page. It won't have the best formatting however. Exercise caution when doing this and note that images from another website may change or disappear at any time.
The template we call ent is convenient for when you want to make text both a link and code at once.
Red (broken) links
It's O.K. to link to a non-existent page! We would prefer that you then created that page, if you know about it. What we don't want is a page that's just "todo: make this page".
If you've created a page and pre-existing links to it still show as red, add ?action=purge to the end of the URLs to update their link colors. You can also do this by pressing the Edit button on the pages and saving them without changing anything.
Note:Broken links are only detected for wiki pages, not external or Wikipedia links.Link Colors
| Type of Link | Before Visiting | After Visiting |
|---|---|---|
| wiki pages and external links | #8BB9E0 | #002BB8 |
| Wikipedia links | #36B | #551A8B |
| Broken links | #D64B4B | #BA0000 |
See Also
- Help:Redirects
- Special:BrokenRedirects - pages that need to have redirect links fixed.
- Special:DeadendPages - pages that need more links on them.
- Special:DoubleRedirects - Redirects that need to be fixed (chaining is bad).
- Special:LinkSearch - Search through external links.
- Special:ListRedirects - List of all redirects.
- Special:LonelyPages - Pages that need to be linked to in other places.
- Special:MostLinkedPages - Most linked-to pages.
- Special:WantedPages - Pages that are linked to a lot, but do not exist.