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:Contents|An important page]]
To link to a page on Wikipedia, add Wikipedia: to your page name.
[[Wikipedia:Half-Life 2|Half-Life 2 on Wikipedia]]
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.
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 | Unvisited | Visited |
|---|---|---|
| wiki pages and external links | #8BB9E0 | #002BB8 |
| Wikipedia links | #36B | |