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Wikimedia help page
සැකිල්ල:SHORTDESC:Wikimedia help page
"H:L" මෙතැනට යළියොමුවෙයි. help with lists සඳහා,
Help:List
බලන්න.
මෙම පිටුව how to mark up links පිලිබඳ වේ. a very basic tutorial සඳහා,
Wikipedia:Tutorial/Wikipedia links
බලන්න. various URLs of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia servers සඳහා,
Help:URL
බලන්න.
මෙම පිටුව ඉංග්‍රීසි ව්‍යාපෘතියෙන් මෙහි ගෙනවිත් ඇත. අන්තර්ගතය අපගේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය සමඟ 100% නොගැලපෙනමුත් අපගේ අවශ්‍යතාවයන් වලට අනුකූලව ගොඩනගා ගැනීම සඳහා මූලික පියවර ලෙස භාවිතා කළ හැකිය.
මෙම උදවු පිටුව
කෙලෙසද-මාර්ගෝපදේශනයකි
මෙය විකිපීඩියාවේ ප්‍රතිමාන සහ ක්‍රියාමාර්ගවල සමහර ලක්ෂණ විස්තර කරයි. එය
විකිපීඩියාවේ ප්‍රතිපත්ති සහ මාර්ගෝපදේශන
අතුරින් එකක් නොවේ, and may reflect varying levels of
consensus
and
vetting
. මෙම පිටුව තුල කිසිවක් අසංගත නම් එම ප්‍රතිපත්ති සහ මාර්ගෝපදේශන වෙත යොමු වන්න
කෙටි මං
H:L
H:LINK
Linking and
page manipulation
Linking and diffs
URLs
Links
Orphans
Interlanguage links
Interwiki linking
Shortcuts
External links
External link icons
Link color
Colon trick
Pipe trick
Self links
What links here
Linksearch
Manual of Style on linking
Navigation templates
Hatnotes
Template index for links
Diffs
Simplest diff guide
Simple diff and link guide
Complete diff and link guide
Categorization
Category
Categorization guideline
Classification
Container category
FAQ for categorization
FAQ for categories
Categories, lists, and navigation templates
Categorization of people
By year
By ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality
Redirect categories
User categories
Overcategorization
User categories
Template index for categories
Moving and redirecting
How to move a page for beginners
Redirects
Moving a page
Requested moves
How to fix cut-and-paste moves
Moving files to Commons
Userfication
Template index for moving
Template index for redirects
Merging
Merging
Proposed article mergers
Requests for history merge
Merge and delete?
Merge what?
Delete or merge?
Template index for merging
WikiProject Merge
Splitting
Splitting
Template index for splitting
Importing and copying
How to import articles
Requests for page importation
Import
Export
Copying within Wikipedia
Protecting
Protection
Protection policy
High-risk templates
Requests for page protection
Rough guide to semi-protection
Additional
How to create a page
Article creation
Editing
Deletion process
A video screencast showing how to create wikilinks
This page explains how to make the
wikilink
interwiki link
, or external
web link
(as
hyperlinks
) connections on Wikipedia, which gives readers one-click access to other Wikipedia pages, other Wikimedia projects, and external websites.
A link has various (changeable) appearances on the "anchor" page, and the "target" page, which owns the "backlinks", and which can count the links to it with the
WP:What links here
tool.
For a short list of some basic shortcuts, see
Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
For guidelines on how links should be used in Wikipedia, see
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking
Wikilinks (internal links)
සංස්කරණය
මේවාත් බලන්න:
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking
Help:Wikitext § Wikilinks
, සහ
mw:Help:Links
කෙටි මග
H:WIKILINK
A wikilink (or internal link) is a link from one page to another page within the English Wikipedia, or, more generally, within the
same
Wikipedia (e.g. within the French Wikipedia), in other words: within the same domain, or, even
more
generally, within the same Wikimedia project (e.g. within Wiktionary).
Links are enclosed in doubled square brackets:
[[1234]]
is seen as "
1234
" in text and links to (the top of) page "
1234
".
Use a
vertical bar
"|" (the "pipe" symbol) to create a link which appears as a term other than the name of the target page. Links of this kind are said to be "
piped
". The first term inside the brackets is the title of the page you would be taken to (the link target), and anything after the vertical bar is what the link looks like for the reader on the original page (the link label). For example:
[[a|b]]
appears as "
" but links to page "
", thus:
See
Help:Pipe trick
for how to generate some common forms of piped links without typing text after the "|".
Letters and other non-punctuation text immediately (i.e. without a space) after the closing brackets of a wikilink becomes part of the label (meaning it is shown in the same colour as the label) without changing the target. This is useful for plurals and verb forms which only add something at the end. For example:
[[apple]]s
generates
apples
, linking to
apple
, and is equivalent to but more convenient than
[[apple|apples]]
This not only saves the active editor time, it also makes the code easier to read; the latter is why it should always be done where possible.
More complicated examples:
[[a|b]]c
gives
bc
, equivalent to
[[a|bc]]
a[[b]]
gives a
. There are no special rules for text preceding a wikilink.
If you want the "a" in front in the colour of the link, you have to write
[[b|ab]]
gives
ab
[[a]]:b
gives
:b since the rule doesn't apply to punctuation.
This does the right thing for possessives, like
[[Batman]]'s
gives
Batman
's.
[[a]]''b''
gives
. (Double apostrophes turn on and off italics.)
Even italics
in
the link:
[[a|a''b'']]
gives
, but, of course, in colour.
[[a]]b
gives
b. The nowiki tag turns off the rule.
[[a|b]]c
gives
c.
The link target is
case-sensitive except for the first character
(so
[[atom]]
links to "
Atom
" but
[[ATom]]
does not, it links to
another
page).
If the target of a wikilink does not exist, it is displayed in a red color and is called a "
red link
". Here is a
red link example
To see what the tool tip tells you about a red link and what is displayed at the bottom left corner, move your mouse pointer into this red link.
If a red link is clicked, the user is taken to a blank page where it is possible to create a page using that red linked title. While on that blank page, other red links to this (non-existent) title can be detected using the "
What links here
" feature.
If the target of a link is the same as the page on which it appears (a
self-link
), it is displayed in bold font, as with:
Help:Link
. Yes, its wiki code is actually
[[Help:Link]]
. But it is not in the usual link colour, and it does not react as a link does; if the mouse pointer is in it, the mouse pointer looks like being in/over plain text.
When an edit is previewed before saving, if the target of a newly made link turns out to be a
disambiguation page
, such as the
Peacemaker
page, the link should be changed to one of the choices on that page unless the link is purposely in a
hatnote
. If necessary, the new link can be
piped
, such as in
[[Peacemaker (comics)|Peacemaker]]
, which appears as
Peacemaker
and links to the article about the fictional characters. Readers should not be directed to disambiguation pages unless there is no other option but to do so.
Attempting to link normally to an
image
page,
category
page or
interlanguage link
will produce a different effect: this will respectively place the image on the page, add the page to the category, or create an interlanguage link at the edge of the page. To override this behavior, insert an initial colon ":", as in
[[:File:Mediawiki.png]]
[[:Category:Help]]
[[:fr:Help:Link]]
Less common ways in which link targets are reinterpreted are described below in
#Conversion to canonical form
Inserting and deleting internal links
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When
editing
source
links are inserted or deleted simply by adding or removing pairs of square brackets enclosing the text concerned (plus handling piped links).
There are some helpful tools:
When using the
visual editor
, selecting some text, then clicking the link icon above the text box (two links of a chain) will allow the link to be added, offering a selection of possible matches and the ability to pipe.
When using the
WikEd
source editor, selectable from Preferences > Gadgets > Editing, there is a "Wiki link" button (typically the first button on the bottom row). When editing, if some text is
highlighted
, clicking the Wiki link button will enclose it in double brackets, i.e., Wikilink it. If, however, some text is highlighted that includes one or more internal links—in many cases just a single internal link with its delimiting brackets—they will be removed instead. For a single link without pipe, the Wiki link button will toggle between linking and unlinking.
Interwiki links
සංස්කරණය
මේවාත් බලන්න:
Help:Interwiki linking
meta:Help:Interwiki linking
, සහ
Help:Interlanguage links
An
interwiki link
links to a page on another Wikimedia project website, such as
Meta
or another language Wikipedia. The target site must be on the
interwiki map
specified for the source wiki. These links have the same [[...]] syntax as wikilinks (see previously), but take a prefix ":x:" which specifies the target site.
For example,
[[m:Help:Link]]
links to the "Help:Link" page on Meta, while
[[:commons:Athens]]
links to page "Athens" on
Wikimedia Commons
as:
commons:Athens
Interwiki links can be piped, just as with wikilinks. Remember that an
interlanguage link
should be preceded by a colon if it is to be displayed, where it is inserted in the text, as an
inline interlanguage link
; otherwise it will be displayed in the list of interlanguage links at the side of the page (which is appropriate only if it is the most closely corresponding page in the other language Wikipedia). Thus (incorporating the
pipe trick
),
[[:ja:Wikilink|]]
would be used to link to Wikilink on Japanese Wikipedia. Example: (
[[:ja:URL|]]
links to
URL
on Japanese Wikipedia).
Interwiki links (like external links) are displayed in a slightly paler blue than ordinary wikilinks. The
MediaWiki
page formatting does not detect whether these target pages exist, so they are never displayed in red.
External links
සංස්කරණය
වැඩිදුර තොරතුරු:
Wikipedia:External links
External links use
URLs
to link directly to any web page. External links are enclosed in single square brackets (rather than double brackets as with internal links), with the optional link text separated from the URL by a space (not a "|" as with internal links). When rendered, external links are followed by an
external link icon
. For example,
[http://www.example.org/ link text]
will be rendered as
link text
The URL must be specified in full, including the protocol: for example
[http://...]
or
[https://...]
. Short form URLs that are accepted in some other (non-Wikimedia) contexts like
[example.org/ link text]
or
[www.example.org/ link text]
are not accepted and will not result in a link being generated. Instead, the link generating markup including the square brackets will be copied directly to the marked-up output, thus "[example.org/ link text]" or "[www.example.org/ link text]".
When no link text is specified, external links appear numbered:
[http://www.example.org/some-page][http://www.example.org/some-other-page]
becomes
[1]
[2]
. Links with no square brackets display in their entirety:
displays as
For more detailed information on external linking practices, see
Help:URL § Linking to URLs
. Also note that
Special:LinkSearch
can be used to find all pages linking to a given site.
The external link syntax can also be used to link to particular pages within Wikipedia that are not accessible by wikilinks, such as
page history
, the edit view, an old version of a page, the
diff
between two versions, etc. It can also be used to create a
navigational image
To display an external link without the arrow icon, place the external link syntax between
span
class
"plainlinks"
...
span
tags. For instance,
span
class
"plainlinks"
[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Link
action=history this page's history]
span
will be rendered as:
this page's history
. If you make frequent use of this, the
CharInsert
gadget (which can be activated under
මනාප
Gadgets
→ Editing → CharInsert
), has an option to insert this text in its "Wiki markup" mode.
http: and https:
සංස්කරණය
In mid-2015
, Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia sites were changed to use
HTTPS
to encrypt all traffic. Accessing a URL like
will result in the webserver redirecting you to
http
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link
. Therefore, when making an external-style link to an internal page (that is, using single square brackets, or a bare URL),
https
should be specified to avoid the needless redirect, as in
In the past, when Wikipedia could be accessed via either HTTP or HTTPS, a
protocol-relative URL
could be used to make an external link (or external-style link to an internal page) which would use
http:
or
https:
depending on how the page the link appeared on was accessed, as in
[//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links]
. However, as all Wikimedia sites now require HTTPS, this linking style is obsolete and should no longer be used.
http:
or
https:
should be explicitly specified as appropriate for the target site (preferring
https:
, where available).
What is an "anchor"?
සංස්කරණය
The word "anchor" has two opposing meanings:
In the context of a link from an
anchor
to a
target
, it is the starting place.
In the context of the template {{
anchor
}}, an "anchor" is a landing place for a link to jump to.
This place/location even can be the gap between two letters.
The anchor
template
proceeds to automatically create some invisible coding from
certain text in the template
in the "landing place", taking into account certain parameters in reference templates in general.
So, for developers, the word "anchor" may refer
to the text and parameters, in the template, from which the invisible code is created,
to the mostly invisible HTML code, or
to the landing place/location/spot in itself.
Section linking (anchors)
සංස්කරණය
කෙටි මග
WP:ANCHOR
මේවාත් බලන්න:
Help:Section § Section linking
, සහ
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking § Section links
To link to a section or subsection in another page, append a
and the section name to the page name:
[[Page name#Section name|displayed text]]
For linking in the same page, omit the page name and use a
and the section name:
[[#Section name|displayed text]]
Omitting the page name is recommended when linking to a section in the same page because the link will work as expected when previewing changes or after moving the page.
Note that
Section names
are entirely case sensitive, in contrast to article links, where the first letter is not case sensitive.
Template
To link to a section so that it is formatted with the section symbol instead (
Page name § Section name
rather than as
Page name#Section name
), use the template {{
Section link
}} (or {{
slink
}}):
{{Section link|Page name|Section name}}
When using the template, certain characters
[ ] { | }
require encoding when linking to a section:
.5B
.5D
.7B
.7C
.7D
For example, the section "[Closed] Complaint" can be linked with
[[#.5BClosed.5D Complaint]]
. Links in the table of contents will automatically make this encoding, so the URL can be copied from there. However, that URL will also encode other characters which do not interfere with templates or wikicode, so the result may look ugly.
For more information, see
Help:Section
. See also
Wikipedia:Redirect § Targeted and untargeted redirects
Specifics
සංස්කරණය
When a link contains a section title (as in the examples above), the title actually points to an HTML
anchor
on the target page. In addition to anchors created automatically by section titles, there are times when it's advantageous to create an anchor on a smaller unit of text, such as a specific paragraph (see
§ Linking to part of a section
below). This can be done using
{{
Anchor
|anchor name}}
, or alternatively, the
HTML
code
...
(see {{
Anchor
}} syntax). Anchors are also used when renaming a section, yet still allowing links to the old name to function, or similarly, allowing linking to a section using an abbreviation; see
MOS:HEADINGS
for more info. Links to anchors can also be added to external URLs and to interwiki links, again using the
syntax.
Section links still work through page names that are
redirects
. For example, if
Danzig
redirects to
Gdańsk
, then
Danzig#History
will link to the "History" section of the article Gdańsk. It is also possible for the target of a redirect to be defined as a specific section or anchor of a page (these work only if JavaScript is enabled). Indeed,
according to the Manual of Style
, it may be preferable to define such redirects, and use them when linking to those sections/anchors, rather than linking using the
[[Page name#Section or anchor name|displayed text]]
or
{{Section link|Page name|Section name}}
syntax. This way, if the section or anchored text later becomes its own article, links via the redirect won't need to be rewritten.
For example,
Wikipedia:Section link
redirects specifically to the section
Help:Link#Section linking (anchors)
on this page. A quirk of the way this works is that if one were to add a section name when using such a link, it would override the section specified by the redirect. So
Wikipedia:Section link#Interwiki links
would go to the "Interwiki links" section of this page. Such overriding of section redirects should be avoided.
The {{
Visible anchor
}} template can be used to create
an anchor associated with text that is highlighted when the anchor is linked to
example - click here
). The template's first parameter will be used as both the anchor and the display text (
|text=
can be used to provide different display text).
Duplicate section names
සංස්කරණය
කෙටි මග
WP:DUPSECTNAME
If more than one section on a destination page has the same title, a link to the title is to the first section with that title. If the link should be to another section with the title or a title that differs only in capitalization (Example vs. EXAMPLE), append to the linked title _2, _3, and so on, without a space (or 2, 3, and so on
with
a space), counting from the top of the destination page and without regard to whether a section is a section or a subsection. For example, multiple sections titled "History" may be linked to as "History", "History_2" (or "History 2"), and so on.
Linking to part of a section
සංස්කරණය
කෙටි මග
WP:LINKPART
මේවාත් බලන්න:
§ Table row linking
Anchors can also be used to link to any part of a section. For example, if you want to link to the fifth sentence of a section, you place an anchor at the start of that sentence, and you can then link to that anchor in the same way as you would link to any other anchor.
However, just as with section names, duplicate anchor names only link to the first one. Since anchors aren't displayed you have a much greater freedom in picking unique anchors, such as by appending the current date and time to the anchor name (for example, by naming an anchor for section "ThisSection" like so: {{Anchor|ThisSection2014-09-22-18-05a1}} ).
Anchors can be placed anywhere, including at the start of a clause, and inside notes and citations, though it is advisable to test first in your
sandbox
before trying some exotic new kind of location for the first time. Also the anchor has to be placed after any indicators that are only recognized at the start of a line (such as == or ===, etc., for new section, * for new bullet point, : for indentation), as the anchor should still work, but the start-of-line indicator usually no longer will (and you may not always notice this, perhaps especially if you are in a hurry).
There are a small number of special anchor names. See
#Table row linking § Notes
Table row linking
සංස්කරණය
To create an anchor for a row of a table, see
Help:Table § Section link or map link to a row anchor
. However,
[[#top]]
and
[[#toc]]
are reserved names that link to the top of a page and the table of contents, respectively.
Piped link
සංස්කරණය
මේවාත් බලන්න:
Help:Pipe trick
කෙටි මග
H:PIPE
piped link
is an internal link or
interwiki link
where the link target and link label are both specified. This is needed in the case that they are not equal, while also the link label is not equal to the link target with the last word extended:
[[cheese]]
(label = target, no pipe needed)
produces
cheese
, linked to the article
Cheese
[[cheese]]s
(label = target + extension ["s"], no pipe needed)
produces
cheeses
, linked to the article
Cheese
[[blue cheese|cheese]]
(label = part of target, pipe required)
produces
cheese
, linked to the article
Blue cheese
[[cheese|blue cheese]]
(label = target + additional text ["blue"], pipe required)
produces
blue cheese
, linked to the article
Cheese
[[cheese|that stuff]]
(label is completely different from target, pipe required)
produces
that stuff
, linked to the article
Cheese
This allows linking a word or phrase within the text of a page rather than using "see also", even if the wording does not exactly correspond with the name of the target page. With a suitable browser and depending on the
preferences
set, one can still see the link target: when you point at the link, the name shows up in a hover tooltip and is also shown in the status bar.
For instance:
[[Train station|station]]
will show:
station
This is useful where the word "station" is used in an article on trains; from the context, it would be clear that a train station is meant. The piped link is more convenient to the user than a link to
station
which might be a disambiguation page.
The word
piped
refers to the use of the pipe character "|" used to separate the good description from the actual link. This character is named after another use of it; see
Pipe (computing)
There are various tricks to get the same result with less typing:
Leave the part to the right empty – the "
pipe trick
Leave the part to the left empty – the "
සැකිල්ල:Pslink
Just attach text to the link, as in "[[train]]s", see
MOS:PIPE
Using a redirect as alternative
සංස්කරණය
An alternative to a piped link is simply using
redirect pages
. To create
How to set up a coffee house
, use
[[How to set up a coffee house]]
and make this a redirect to
coffeehouse setup
(note that, unlike previously, the tooltip that shows when you point at the link, if applicable for your browser, is simply the text already shown).
This is convenient if the redirect is already there or will also be of use elsewhere; however, there are a few drawbacks:
the tooltip does not show the page one will arrive at
Related changes
" gives the changes in the
redirect page
not the redirect target
the redirect message on the target page slightly clutters it
Combining a piped link and a redirect, one can provide some information that is not the name of the page one links to in the hover tooltip, i.e. the following pipe to a redirect
[[United Nations Organization|UNO]]
will display a tooltip "United Nations Organization" when hovering over
UNO
, thereby explaining the abbreviation. (However, {{
abbr
}} is preferred for abbreviations.)
Automatic conversion of wikitext with the pipe trick
සංස්කරණය
මේවාත් බලන්න:
Help:Pipe trick
If in a piped link the part after the "|" is left empty, it is
converted
to an abbreviated form of the linked page, as follows:
Any word before the first colon (:), as well as the colon itself, is removed. This word may or may not be a namespace prefix (such as "Help:") or an interwiki prefix (such as "commons:"). If the page name is preceded by a colon, "first" refers to "first after this".
If there is text in parentheses at the end it will be removed.
If there are no parentheses but there is a comma, the comma and everything after it are removed.
The link will be in whatever case is used.
Just like for the three or four tildes when signing on Talk pages and the use of
subst
, in a preview, the result already shows up in the preview itself, but the conversion in the edit box is not yet shown. Press "Show changes" to see the change in the wikitext.
Category tag
The sort key syntax of the category being like a piped link, the pipe trick also works for category tags, even though it is not useful there.
Examples using colons
[[Help:Template|]]
is converted to [[Help:Template|Template]], which is rendered as
Template
[[Music: My life|]]
is converted to [[Music: My life| My life]], which is rendered as
My life
– although "Music:" is not a namespace (therefore the space after the colon is not automatically removed), the shortcut works anyway.
[[w:en:Pipe (computing)|]]
is converted to [[w:en:Pipe (computing)|en:Pipe]], which is rendered as
en:Pipe
Case examples
[[pipe (computing)|]]
is converted to [[pipe (computing)|pipe]] which is rendered as
pipe
[[Pipe (computing)|]]
is converted to [[Pipe (computing)|Pipe]] which is rendered as
Pipe
Comma example
[[commons:Boston, Massachusetts|]]
is converted to [[commons:Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], which is rendered as
Boston
Other examples
Parameters
and
variables
[[w:{{{1}}}|]]
does
not
give [[w:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]].
Calling the template with a value of parameter 1 gives a working link in the case of substitution only.
[[w:en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|]]
does
not
give [[w:en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]].
[[m:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|]]
does
not
give [[m:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
[[
project
a (b)
|]]
[[
w:project
a (b)
|]]
[[
:de:project
a (b)
|]]
[[
wiktionary:project
a (b)
|]]
[[
wiktionary:de:project
a (b)
|]]
[[
wikibooks:project
a (b)
|]]
[[
wikiquote:project
a (b)
|]]
[[
wikisource:project
a (b)
|]]
[[
w:en
:{{
FULLPAGENAME
}}|]]
**
[[
w:en
:{{
FULLPAGENAME
}}|
en:
{{
FULLPAGENAME
}}]]
[[
:{{
FULLPAGENAME
}}|]]
**
[[
:{{
FULLPAGENAME
}}|{{
FULLPAGENAME
}}]]
These examples appear as:
project:a
project:a
project:a
de:project:a
project:a
project:a
project:a
[[w:en:උදවු:සබැඳි|]]
en:උදවු:සබැඳි
[[m:උදවු:සබැඳි|]]
උදවු:සබැඳි
Inverse pipe trick
සංස්කරණය
On page "A (c)",
[[|B]]
is automatically converted to [[B (c)|B]].
Similarly, on page "A, c",
[[|B]]
is automatically converted to [[B, c|B]].
Further examples are here.
Subpage links
සංස්කරණය
A wikilink needs a
[[
fullpagename
]]
, and this is not optional
except when it links to or from a
subpage
A wikilink to its parent page is
[[../]]
and, although no page name is given, the
fullpagename
is rendered.
On the parent a wikilink to a subpage can use
[[/
subpagename
]]
to render a subpagename instead.
Although subpages are created in article space,
subpage linking does not fully function there.
Subpage linking works as expected to link to any pages under a root parent page:
section linking:
[[../#
section
]]
child-to-child subpage linking:
[[../
subpagename
]]
parent's parent
[[../../]]
including the
[[../|
pipe trick
and including
transclusions
{{../}}
and
{{/
subpagename
}}
Consider that there are about 140
subpages of the
Manual of style
arranged in 97 branches, 35 of which have two subpages, and 5 of which have three subpages. Subpage links save typing. Say you're editing this closely related group of fullpagenames:
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Signatures
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial/Internal guidelines
On subpagename
You type
You get
Links to
Data tables tutorial
[[../]]
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility
Parent
Internal​guidelines
[[../../]]
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility
Grandparent
[[/Signatures]]
/Signatures
Child
[[/Signatures
]]
Signatures
Child
Data tables tutorial
[[../Signatures]]
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Signatures
Sibling
Data tables tutorial
[[../Signatures/]]
Signatures
Sibling
Internal​guidelines
[[../../Signatures]]
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Signatures
Uncle
Signatures
[[../Data tables tutorial/Internal guidelines]]
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial/Internal guidelines
Nephew
To see this page's array of subpage variables and markup four levels deep, see
/one/two/three/four
, and from there go to level two at
one/two
Markup
[[../]]
addresses the
basepagename
, except when a
pagename
includes a
slash character (allowed), the basepagename/subpagename variables' characters are skewed. To see all this, and how adding an extra
../
construct fixes the resulting
redlink
, see
/sub/page/name1/sub/page/name2/subpage level 3
, and from there go to
sub/page/name2
Note that the top of every subpage shows the
navigation links
to all
parent
subpagenames. From these you can easily gauge levels and linking constructs.
For more information:
See
Wikipedia:Page name#Subpagename and basepagename
Create
a subpage by using a
red link
See
m:Help:Link#Subpage feature
See examples at
m:Link/a/b
and
m:Help:Link/a/b
Special pages links
සංස්කරණය
ප්‍රධාන පිටුව:
Help:Special page#Linking to or listing special pages
To create a link to a special page:
[[Special:PrefixIndex/HMS]]
Special:PrefixIndex/HMS
Because the ampersand character (&) is disallowed, it is not possible to create an ordinary link containing
&action=edit
or
&redirect=no
in the URL query string. In these cases, use templates or magic words, see
#Links containing URL query strings
For example, you can use a template such as {{
Plain link
}} to encode a Wikimedia url link, such as one pointing to a special page with parameters.
{{Plain link|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=79269392|name=15:21, 8 December 2016}}
gives
15:21, 8 December 2016
Changing link appearance
සංස්කරණය
The ways that various links are displayed in browsers, as described above, are the default display styles in the default
skin
. Users can change the way they see links:
By selecting a different skin.
By applying a
user style
using CSS.
By changing the "Underline links" or "Format broken links like this" value on the Appearance tab of
user preferences
By setting the "threshold for stub display" on the Appearance tab of user preferences. This causes links to pages in mainspace to be displayed in a distinctive fashion – dark red by default – if the wikitext of the target page has less than a specified number of bytes. (Any section markers in the link are ignored. Links to redirects are displayed in the normal style.)
Hover tooltips
සංස්කරණය
In many browsers, holding the cursor over a link (
mouseover
) shows a hover
tooltip
containing the text of the link's
HTML
title
attribute. MediaWiki – the software which runs Wikipedia – sets this to the target page name (without any section indication) if it's a wikilink, the page name with prefix if it's an interwiki link, and the link address (
URL
) if it's an external link. (This can be switched off in the
user preferences
.) The browser may also show similar information, including any section indication, in the status bar.
For these effects a piped link is useful even if it is not followed; for example, for displaying the meaning of an acronym. It is possible to produce a hover tooltip without a link, using the {{
Tooltip
}} template.
Disallowed characters
සංස්කරණය
A link whose target contains disallowed characters (see
WP:Page name
) will be displayed without markup, as in
[[A{b}]]
Conversions are automatically made to
non-literal characters
in wiki and interwiki links. For example,
[[Help:Page%20name]]
becomes
Help:Page name
. However, the opposite is true for external links; literal characters are converted into non-literal characters. For example, most browsers convert
.../wiki/!
to
.../wiki/%21
Some characters in a web address link need to be represented as
escape characters
because they are reserved for Wikipedia edits. Examples include
%5B
for
%5D
for
%3C
for
%3E
for
%7B
for
%7D
for
%7C
for
, and
%26
for
. More can be found by reading about
percent encoding
Numeric character references
(e.g.
[
or
[
) should not be used in external links because the ampersand character (&) has a special meaning in a URL.
In excessive cases, an automatic
percent encoder such as the one at W3 Schools
(use the second JavaScript form under "URL Encoding Functions") is probably the simplest solution. For example, pasting
Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 41#{{Cite book}} and |contribution problems
into that form yields the wikilink
[[Help%20talk%3ACitation%20Style%201%2FArchive%2041%23%7B%7BCite%20book%7D%7D%20and%20%7Ccontribution%20problems]]
, which appears as
Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 41#{{Cite book}} and |contribution problems
, as desired.
Links containing ampersands
සංස්කරණය
Because the
ampersand character
(&) is disallowed, it is not possible to create an ordinary link containing
&action=edit
or
&redirect=no
in the URL query string. These kinds of links can be helpful in user pages. Also, a redirect page can have categories and you might wish to view or edit these in a single click. There are three ways to create these links:
You can use the {{
Querylink
}} template to append query parameters to a Wikipedia page URL. For example,
{{Querylink|Help:Link|qs=action=history|this page's history}}
produces the link
this page's history
You can use the {{
Plain link
}} template to encode a Wikimedia url link. For example,
{{Plain link|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=79269392|name=query}}
yields the link
query
You can use the
magic word
fullurl
. For example, to append
action=edit
to a URL query string you could use
[{{fullurl:Help:Link|action=history}} this page's history]
, which renders as
this page's history
. Note that this will render as an external link rather than as an internal link and for this reason it might not appear in what-links-here queries associated with the target page.
Link reports
සංස්කරණය
වැඩිදුර තොරතුරු:
Help:What links here
The navigable links to a page are wikilinks, redirects, and external-styled wikilinks.
The {{
orphan
}} tag can be placed on pages with no incoming wikilinks.
To a page
සංස්කරණය
Each link to a page is a link to a
name
No one report shows all links to the
content
The
What links here
tool, on every page,
will report all wikilinks and all redirects to the
content
of that page.
(You get the wikilinks to the redirects too.)
The
parameter
linksto
will find wikilinks only.
Both report (invisible) wikilinks placed by a transclusion through a {{
template
}}.
The difference between them is that
linksto
reports a count of links to
a page name
while
WhatLinksHere
reports a map of links to
the page as content
To a section
සංස්කරණය
The navigable links to a section of a page are wikilinks, redirects, and URL-styled wikilinks.
The difference between a redirect and a wikilink is most pronounced where a redirect targets a section,
when you cannot add your own
section
to it
even though it appears as
[[
page name
]]
A wikilink that links to a section
and
that appears as
[[
page name
section name
]]
can link to that section through the canonical page name (the title on the page with the actual content)
or through the page name of any redirect to it, in which case the page name is the name of a redirect page.
To find wikilinks to a section requires two or more reports.
Show redirects only
, an external tool available from the
What links here
page, reports redirects to the
content
of a section. (No matter which page
name
you give it, you get all the redirect page names.) Look past any "
No anchor or section
" group of redirects, and any "invalid" sections, to see if your particular section name is explicitly listed, because then the redirect pages under it can have incoming links that will then go to that section.
("What Links Here" also has a "show redirects" report, but it doesn't specify if the redirect goes to any particular section.)
Use "What Links Here" on any redirect pages found in the previous step.
Use {{
Links to
}} to create a group of search links that will each report some links to a section. It can work with only one page name at a time. For each search link given, just change the page name in the query to each redirect in turn.
The more redirects there are, the more reports there are to run.
If there are no redirects involved, one report from "Links to" is enough.
From a page
සංස්කරණය
To report links
from
a page, you simply list all the wikilinks on that page.
Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools § Relink
can count wikilinks from a copy of the wikitext on your local machine.
Some
text editors support
the counting and highlighting of the
[[...]]
pattern occurrences.
The Wikipedia
web API
accepts queries by URL.
One way to send a query to the API is by creating an external link (
§ External links
).
For example, using an external link very much like a search link, you can
send the API a request to list the link properties of "
wp:example
".
It should interpret it correctly as "Wikipedia:Example",
pageid 25263910
What you type
[//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&pllimit=500&titles=
fullpagename
your label
What you get when fullpagename is
wp:example
your label
The report is in
JSON
format, as is usual for RESTful APIs.
The pageid is available from
Page information
on every page.
The
titles
parameter is plural. (It is designed to take multiple fullpagenames or pageid, delimited by the | pipe character.)
The number of links returned by this query is limited to 500, per the URL you created. See
mw:API:Query
for how to safely get more. For example,
Operating system
has 510 wikilinks.
To make a page register as a link to a page, but without actually showing the link,
make a link to it, but label it with a space character using the pipe trick:
[[
pagename
| ]]
Additional link-related functions
සංස්කරණය
For the effect that links have on date formatting, see
Help:Date formatting and linking
Another link-dependent feature is
related changes
, which make it possible to view recent changes to all pages which are linked from the current page (or which are members of the category, if it is a category page).
For information on how to link to pages from an image, see
mw:Extension:ImageMap
Several
templates
have been created to make linking easier (although they are not usually used in article space). These include {{
tl
}} and {{
tlx
}} for linking to templates, and {{
cl
}} and {{
lc
}} for linking to categories. More can be found in
Category:Internal link templates
Conversion to canonical form
සංස්කරණය
වැඩිදුර තොරතුරු:
mw:Manual:Title.php § Canonical forms
As
described previously
, if a link target begins with a lower case letter, it will be interpreted as if it began with the equivalent capital letter. If the target contains a
namespace
prefix, then the whole prefix and the first character after the colon are case-insensitive (so
uSeR:jimbo Wales
links to
User:Jimbo Wales
).
In link targets, spaces and underscores (which are effectively equivalent) are ignored if they come at the start, at the end, or immediately before or after the colon following a namespace prefix. Consecutive spaces / underscores are treated as a single space. Hence
_User_: Jimbo_ __ Wales__
links to
User:Jimbo Wales
HTML character references
and
percent-encoded
characters are replaced with their raw character. For example,
[[département]]
produces
département
, and
[[%40]]
produces
. Links which resolve to
invalid page titles
are displayed as unmarked-up wikitext.
Titles indicated by wikilinks are displayed in canonical form (with correction of capitalization and excess spaces / underscores removed, as described previously) in the following places:
In
transclusion
tags for non-existent pages:
{{qwsazx}}
gives
Template:Qwsazx
In tooltips and in the status bar (if applicable for the browser) when the mouse cursor is moved over the link.
On
redirect
pages.
In the
category
box.
The prefixes in
interwiki links
are treated similarly to namespace prefixes: they are insensitive to case and to spaces before and after the colon. However the first character after the colon is
not
automatically capitalized (whether it is interpreted as a capital depends on the configuration of the target wiki).
See also
සංස්කරණය
Find link tool
: a simple tool that lets you search for articles to consider adding links to.
Clean linking
MediaWiki help page on links
Help:Link color
: the color of a
link
shows the status of the corresponding target page.
Help:Pipe trick
: uses the
pipe character
("
") to save typing the label of a piped link.
Help:Permanent link
: creating a permanent link to a page revision.
Smart Linking tool
: a tool for linking and previewing the linked article above the text box with the wiki code.
Help:Self link
: self links is a link to the page itself. A self-link to a page appears as bold text when the article is viewed.
Wikipedia:Shortcut
: a specialized type of redirect page that provides an abbreviated wikilink to a project page.
Help:Colon trick
: a trick when providing category, image or interwiki links.
Wikipedia:Orphan § Step 2: Finding related articles
User:Tony1/Build your linking skills
, a tutorial on high-quality linking with practice questions
Notes and references
සංස්කරණය
Note that this wikitext isn't as pretty as the manual method, which would yield
[[Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 41#%7B%7BCite book%7D%7D and %7Ccontribution problems]]
. This is because the encoder converts characters like space, :, and # which are legal in wikilinks and don't need to be converted.
The aliases for the namespace part of the name are recognized in
wikilinks and in the parser functions that create URL style links – canonicalurl and fullurl.
They are also recognized in the navigation box, and in Search,
except for the
insource
parameter.
"What Links Here" does not report URL-style links to a page.
Redirects that link to a section are part of a valiant effort to enable changing a section heading without breaking a link to the
name
. That effort also must ask editors who want to link to a section to always check the wikitext of the target section, and there find, read and understand the plan to link to a single redirect page instead. Then that redirect page links to the section. ("Invalid" redirects to a non-existing anchor or section occur when this is overlooked.)
If you will use the API heavily or professionally you should follow its currently listed recommendations at
API
(Use
continue=
, use
formatversion2
, use multiple pages at once, etc.)
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