Create Links in MediaWiki Wikis

This section will provide the step by step guide on how to create internal and external links in wiki editing.

Steps

Linking a Page Internally

This will add a link to a page that is on wikiHow.com.

Easy Method

  1. Put double brackets [[ and ]] around the word you want to link. For example: On wikiHow, writing [[Relax]], will produce Relax. Article titles are case sensitive, so you must have the title correctly capitalized.

Advanced Editing Method

  1. Get in edit mode by clicking the "Edit" button. On wikiHow click again to reach "Advanced Editing".
  2. Highlight the word you want internally linked to a page.
  3. Click the internal link icon, the third button after bold and italicize.
  4. Click save.

Linking to an External Page

This will add a link to a page that is not on the wikiHow site.

  1. Get in edit mode by clicking the "Edit" button. On wikiHow click again to arrive on "Advanced Editing".
  2. Highlight the word you want to link to an external website.
  3. Hit the external link button, the fourth button after internal link.
  4. Insert the URL within the bracket before the word you want to put external link.
  5. It would look like this. [http:/www.google.com Google]
  6. Make sure there is a single space between URL and Words external linked.
  7. Click save button.

Tips

  • Make sure that there is a single character space between the URL and the word linked.
  • A "red" word means page doesn't exist. A "green" word means page existed.
  • It will help if you read the guide to wiki editing at MediaWiki.
  • It is not necessary to go into Advanced editing to add links a certain way. Just memorize the coding shown here.

Warnings

  • Do not include "how to" in the link. [[How to Relax]] will not work, whereas [[Relax]] will.

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