Editing Wiki linking

==What you type is not what they see==
It is possible to make link texts differ from the name of the target using the "pipe" (unix) symbol which is "|" like this:

*<nowiki>[[XML|eXtendable Markup Language]]</nowiki>, which would be presented like this [[XML|eXtendable Markup Language]]
*Remember <nowiki>[[reality first|what ever you want people to see second]]</nowiki> if you have trouble remembering which way it is.

This is called [[anchor text]] and is usually best avoided, as it does not reinforce the name of the page in the end user's mind.

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==Name spaces==
There exists a number of namespaces in the consumerium wiki space these are 
*"Special" this is used for machine generated pages, accessible through the "special pages" drop down list on the top of the page
*"Talk" this is where you go, when you click on the "Discuss this page"-link on an ordinary page
*"User" you can have a page of your own in this space if you register following the "Log In"-link on the upper right hand corner
*"User_talk" for discussions with registered users ("Discuss this page"-link on User pages)
*"Consumerium", is the rough equivalent of the Wikipedia-namespace on [[Wikipedia]].
*"Consumerium_talk" is for Discussing the Consudev: pages
*"Image" [[image uploading is disabled for now, sorry]]
*"Image_talk" [[image uploading is disabled for now, sorry]]
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==Hiding namespaces==
You can use "the pipe trick" to hide the namespace without typing in alternative text like this 
* <nowiki>[[wiktionary:Product|]]</nowiki> (notice the "pipe" symbol) is presented like this [[wiktionary:Product|Product]]
* <nowiki>[[Consumerium:Village pump|]]</nowiki> is presented like this [[Consumerium:Village pump|Village pump]]
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==Interwiki linking== 
is used to link to other wiki's namespaces without writing the fully qualified URL. This makes collaboration between wikis much simpler.

*To link to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia use [[w:Wikipedia]]
*To link to http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia use [[m:Wikipedia]]
*To link to http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Consumer use [[wiktionary:Consumer]]

Links outside [[Consumerium]] are colored [[w:color|differently]] then the usual ones.

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===[[MediaWiki]] 1.2.0rc3 and [[GetWiki]] defaults ===
The following are the non-[[standard wiki URI]]s which are the unwise defaults:
 http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_linking (as before)
 http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wiki_linking (notice the change from wiki.phtml to index.php
 http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/Wiki_linking (new ease of use without mod_rewrite

''The [[standard wiki URI]] as used at Wikipedia would be http://en.consumerium.org/wiki/Wiki_linking - the /wiki/ subspace indicating articles amenable to wiki based [[edits, votes and bets|editing]].  There may be other spaces for /print/ or a non-wiki /edit/.''
 
===Current Interwiki links===
<pre>
 REPLACE INTO interwiki (iw_prefix,iw_url,iw_local) VALUES
('w','http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('m','http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('meta','http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('simple','http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1),
('Wiktionary','http://wiktionary.org/wiki/$1',0),
('WikiBooks','http://wikibooks.org/wiki/$1',0);
</pre>

===Linking to other language Wikipedias===
Should anyone have the need to link to Wikipedia in languages other than English, just stick in the language code like so: [[Wikipedia:fr:Commerce équitable]] or [[w:fr:Commerce équitable]].
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===Proposed Interwiki link standard===
''Please use alternate anchor text to simulate an [[interwiki link standard]] for now, e.g. [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Recyclopedia:avoid_anchor_text en: Recyclopedia: avoid anchor text].  Eventually this should be directly supported in software.''
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==Linking to URLs that use apostrophes (')==
Directly writing the apostrophe to the url does not work and the apostrophe (') should be replaced by "%27" instead of the apostrophe, in the URL.  Ugly but it works.