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


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*Remember <nowiki>[[reality first|what ever you want people to see second]]</nowiki> if you have trouble remembering which way it is.
*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==
===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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===Name spaces===
There exists a number of namespaces in the consumerium wiki space these are  
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
*"Special" this is used for machine generated pages, accessible through the "special pages" drop down list on the top of the page
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*"Image" [[image uploading is disabled for now, sorry]]
*"Image" [[image uploading is disabled for now, sorry]]
*"Image_talk" [[image uploading is disabled for now, sorry]]
*"Image_talk" [[image uploading is disabled for now, sorry]]
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==Hiding namespaces==
 
===Hiding namespaces===
You can use "the pipe trick" to hide the namespace without typing in alternative text like this  
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>[[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]]
* <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.
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