Wiki linking

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    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:

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


    Interwiki linking

    is used to link to other wiki's namespaces without writing the fully qualified URL. This makes collaboration between wikis much simpler.

    Links outside Consumerium are colored differently then the usual ones.

    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


    Hiding namespaces

    You can use "the pipe trick" to hide the namespace without typing in alternative text like this

    • [[wiktionary:Product|]] (notice the "pipe" symbol) is presented like this Product
    • [[Consumerium:Village pump|]] is presented like this Village pump

    New in MediaWiki 1.2.0rc3

    Now the following ways will work to correctly link: 

    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
    Retrieved from "https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Wiki_linking&oldid=2831"