Wiki linking: Difference between revisions
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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: | 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. | ||
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==Name spaces== | ==Name spaces== | ||
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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== | ||
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* <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 === | ===[[MediaWiki]] 1.2.0rc3 and [[GetWiki]] defaults === | ||
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('simple','http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1); | ('simple','http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1); | ||
===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 �quitable]] or [[w:fr:Commerce �quitable]]. | 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 �quitable]] or [[w:fr:Commerce �quitable]]. | ||
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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. | |||