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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span><span>External links</span></span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-External_links-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle <span>External links</span> subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-http:_and_https:" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#http:_and_https:"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span><span>http: and https:</span></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-http:_and_https:-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-What_is_an_"anchor"?" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#What_is_an_"anchor"?"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>What is an "anchor"?</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-What_is_an_"anchor"?-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Section_linking_(anchors)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Section_linking_(anchors)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Section linking (anchors)</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Section_linking_(anchors)-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Section linking (anchors) subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Section_linking_(anchors)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Specifics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Specifics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Specifics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Specifics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Duplicate_section_names" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Duplicate_section_names"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Duplicate section names</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Duplicate_section_names-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Linking_to_part_of_a_section" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Linking_to_part_of_a_section"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Linking to part of a section</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Linking_to_part_of_a_section-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Table_row_linking" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Table_row_linking"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Table row linking</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Table_row_linking-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Piped_link" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Piped_link"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Piped link</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Piped_link-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Piped link subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Piped_link-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Using_a_redirect_as_alternative" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Using_a_redirect_as_alternative"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Using a redirect as alternative</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Using_a_redirect_as_alternative-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Automatic_conversion_of_wikitext_with_the_pipe_trick" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Automatic_conversion_of_wikitext_with_the_pipe_trick"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Automatic conversion of wikitext with the pipe trick</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Automatic_conversion_of_wikitext_with_the_pipe_trick-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Inverse_pipe_trick" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Inverse_pipe_trick"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Inverse pipe trick</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Inverse_pipe_trick-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Subpage_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Subpage_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Subpage links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Subpage_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Special_pages_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Special_pages_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Special pages links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Special_pages_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Changing_link_appearance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Changing_link_appearance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Changing link appearance</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Changing_link_appearance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hover_tooltips" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hover_tooltips"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Hover tooltips</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hover_tooltips-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Disallowed_characters" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Disallowed_characters"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Disallowed characters</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Disallowed_characters-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Disallowed characters subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Disallowed_characters-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Links_containing_ampersands" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Links_containing_ampersands"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.1</span> <span>Links containing ampersands</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Links_containing_ampersands-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Link_reports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Link_reports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Link reports</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Link_reports-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Link reports subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Link_reports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-To_a_page" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#To_a_page"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.1</span> <span>To a page</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-To_a_page-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-To_a_section" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#To_a_section"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.2</span> <span>To a section</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-To_a_section-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-From_a_page" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#From_a_page"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.3</span> <span>From a page</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-From_a_page-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Additional_link-related_functions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Additional_link-related_functions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>Additional link-related functions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Additional_link-related_functions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Conversion_to_canonical_form" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Conversion_to_canonical_form"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>Conversion to canonical form</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Conversion_to_canonical_form-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes_and_references" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes_and_references"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17</span> <span>Notes and references</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes_and_references-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A9:%D9%88%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A9" title="مساعدة:وصلة – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مساعدة:وصلة" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC:%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B2/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%97" title="সহায়:সমল/সংযোগ – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="সহায়:সমল/সংযোগ" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%97" title="সাহায্য:সংযোগ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সাহায্য:সংযোগ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%A6:Link" title="मदद:Link – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="मदद:Link" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huif:Links" title="Huif:Links – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Huif:Links" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajuda:Enlla%C3%A7os" title="Ajuda:Enllaços – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ajuda:Enllaços" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1pov%C4%9Bda:Odkazy" title="Nápověda:Odkazy – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Nápověda:Odkazy" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymorth:Dolenni" title="Cymorth:Dolenni – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Cymorth:Dolenni" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A6lp:Wikilinks" title="Hjælp:Wikilinks – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Hjælp:Wikilinks" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Links" title="Hilfe:Links – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Hilfe:Links" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomoc:W%C3%B3tkaze" title="Pomoc:Wótkaze – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Pomoc:Wótkaze" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dolnoserbski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helpo:Ligi" title="Helpo:Ligi – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Helpo:Ligi" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguntza:Estekak" title="Laguntza:Estekak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Laguntza:Estekak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7:%D9%81%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7" title="راهنما:فهرست/پیوندها – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="راهنما:فهرست/پیوندها" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Liens" title="Aide:Liens – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Aide:Liens" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedy:Ferwizings" title="Wikipedy:Ferwizings – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Wikipedy:Ferwizings" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%84%EC%9B%80%EB%A7%90:%EB%A7%81%ED%81%AC" title="도움말:링크 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="도움말:링크" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%81" title="सहायता:कड़ियाँ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="सहायता:कड़ियाँ" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomoc:Wotkazy" title="Pomoc:Wotkazy – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Pomoc:Wotkazy" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hj%C3%A1lp:Tenglar" title="Hjálp:Tenglar – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Hjálp:Tenglar" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Link" title="Aiuto:Link – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Aiuto:Link" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%94:%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D" title="עזרה:קישורים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="עזרה:קישורים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8E%D8%AF%D9%8E%D8%AA%DA%BE:%D9%84%D9%90%D9%86%DA%A9" title="مَدَتھ:لِنک – Kashmiri" lang="ks" 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title="Wikipedia:Hatnote">Hatnotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Links" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Links">Template index for links</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">Diffs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplest_diff_guide" title="Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide">Simplest diff guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_diff_and_link_guide" title="Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide">Simple diff and link guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Complete_diff_and_link_guide" title="Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide">Complete diff and link guide</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Categorization</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/How_to_make_a_wikilink.webm/How_to_make_a_wikilink.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/How_to_make_a_wikilink.webm/How_to_make_a_wikilink.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/How_to_make_a_wikilink.webm/How_to_make_a_wikilink.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/How_to_make_a_wikilink.webm/How_to_make_a_wikilink.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"/><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AHow_to_make_a_wikilink.webm&lang=en-gb&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="en-GB" label="British English ‪(en-gb)‬" data-dir="ltr"/></video></span><figcaption>A video screencast showing how to create wikilinks</figcaption></figure> <p>This page explains how to make the <b>wikilink</b>, <b>interwiki link</b>, or external <b>web link</b> (as <a href="/wiki/Hyperlink" title="Hyperlink">hyperlinks</a>) connections on Wikipedia, which gives readers one-click access to other Wikipedia pages, other Wikimedia projects, and external websites. </p><p>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 <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_links_here" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:What links here">WP:What links here</a></i> tool. </p><p>For a short list of some basic shortcuts, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Cheatsheet">Wikipedia:Cheatsheet</a>. </p><p>For guidelines on how links should be used in Wikipedia, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Wikilinks_(internal_links)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikilinks_(internal_links)"><span id="Wikilinks_.28internal_links.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikilinks_(internal_links)"></span><span id="Wikilinks">Wikilinks (internal links)</span><span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikilinks_(internal_links)"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext#Wikilinks" title="Help:Wikitext">Help:Wikitext § Wikilinks</a>, and <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Links">mw:Help:Links</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:WIKILINK"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:WIKILINK&redirect=no">H:WIKILINK</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>). </p><p>Links are enclosed in doubled square brackets: </p> <ul><li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">1234</span><span class="p">]]</span></code> is seen as "<a href="/wiki/1234" title="1234">1234</a>" in text and links to (the top of) page "<a href="/wiki/1234" title="1234">1234</a>".</li></ul> <p>Use a <a href="/wiki/Vertical_bar" title="Vertical bar">vertical bar</a> "|" (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 "<a href="/wiki/Help:Piped_link" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Piped link">piped</a>". 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: </p> <ul><li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">|</span>b<span class="p">]]</span></code> appears as "<a href="/wiki/B" title="B">b</a>" but links to page "<a href="/wiki/A" title="A">a</a>", thus: <a href="/wiki/A" title="A">b</a>.</li></ul> <p>See <a href="/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick" title="Help:Pipe trick">Help:Pipe trick</a> for how to generate some common forms of piped links without typing text after the "|". </p><p>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: </p> <ul><li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">apple</span><span class="p">]]</span>s</code> generates <a href="/wiki/Apple" title="Apple">apples</a>, linking to <a href="/wiki/Apple" title="Apple">apple</a>, and is equivalent to but more convenient than <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">apple</span><span class="p">|</span>apples<span class="p">]]</span></code>.</li></ul> <p>This not only saves the active editor time, it also makes the code easier to read; the latter is why it is recommended wherever possible. </p><p>More complicated examples: </p> <ul><li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">|</span>b<span class="p">]]</span>c</code> gives <a href="/wiki/A" title="A">bc</a>, equivalent to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">|</span>bc<span class="p">]]</span></code> .</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr">a<span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">b</span><span class="p">]]</span></code> gives a<a href="/wiki/B" title="B">b</a>. There are no special rules for text preceding a wikilink.</li> <li>If you want the "a" in front in the colour of the link, you have to write<br/><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">b</span><span class="p">|</span>ab<span class="p">]]</span></code> gives <a href="/wiki/B" title="B">ab</a>.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">]]</span>:b</code> gives <a href="/wiki/A" title="A">a</a>:b since the rule doesn't apply to punctuation.<br/>This does the right thing for possessives, like <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">Batman</span><span class="p">]]</span>'s</code> gives <a href="/wiki/Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a>'s.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">]]</span><span class="ge">''b''</span></code> gives <a href="/wiki/A" title="A">a</a><i>b</i>. This rule also applies to "invisible" notation such as double apostrophes (to turn on and off italics)</li> <li>Even italics <i>in</i> the link: <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">|</span>a<span class="ge">''b''</span><span class="p">]]</span></code> gives <a href="/wiki/A" title="A">a<i>b</i></a>, but, of course, in colour.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">]]<</span><span class="nt">nowiki</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">/></span>b</code> gives <a href="/wiki/A" title="A">a</a>b. The nowiki tag turns off the rule.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">|</span>b<span class="p">]]<</span><span class="nt">nowiki</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">/></span>c</code> gives <a href="/wiki/A" title="A">b</a>c.</li></ul> <p>The link target is <i>case-sensitive except for the first character</i> (so <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">atom</span><span class="p">]]</span></code> links to "<a href="/wiki/Atom" title="Atom">Atom</a>" but <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nt">ATom</span><span class="p">]]</span></code> does not, it links to a <i>different</i> page). </p><p>If the target of a wikilink does not exist, it is displayed in a red color and is called a "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link" title="Wikipedia:Red link">red link</a>". Here is a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_link_example&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Red link example (page does not exist)">red link example</a>. </p><p>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. </p><p>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 "<a href="/wiki/Help:What_links_here" title="Help:What links here">What links here</a>" feature. </p><p>If the target of a link is the same as the page on which it appears (a <a href="/wiki/Help:Self_link" title="Help:Self link">self-link</a>), it is displayed in bold font, as with: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Help:Link</a>. Yes, its wiki code is actually <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">Help</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Link</span><span class="p">]]</span></code>. 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. </p><p>When an edit is previewed before saving, if the target of a newly made link turns out to be a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DAB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DAB">disambiguation page</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Peacemaker" class="mw-disambig" title="Peacemaker">Peacemaker</a> page, the link should be changed to one of the choices on that page unless the link is purposely in a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:HN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:HN">hatnote</a>. If necessary, the new link can be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pipe" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Pipe">piped</a>, such as in <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">[[Peacemaker (comics)|Peacemaker]]</code>, which appears as <a href="/wiki/Peacemaker_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peacemaker (comics)">Peacemaker</a> 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. </p><p>Attempting to link normally to an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Images" title="Wikipedia:Images">image</a> page, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization" title="Wikipedia:Categorization">category</a> page or <a href="/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links" title="Help:Interlanguage links">interlanguage link</a> 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 <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">:File</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Mediawiki.png</span><span class="p">]]</span></code>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">:Category</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Help</span><span class="p">]]</span></code>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">:fr:Help</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">Link</span><span class="p">]]</span></code>. </p><p>Less common ways in which link targets are reinterpreted are described below in <a href="#Conversion_to_canonical_form">#Conversion to canonical form</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Inserting_and_deleting_internal_links" data-mw-thread-id="h-Inserting_and_deleting_internal_links-Wikilinks_(internal_links)"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Inserting_and_deleting_internal_links-Wikilinks_(internal_links)"></span>Inserting and deleting internal links<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Inserting_and_deleting_internal_links-Wikilinks_(internal_links)"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>When <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_source" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit source">editing <i>source</i></a>, links are inserted or deleted simply by adding or removing pairs of square brackets enclosing the text concerned (plus handling piped links).</li></ul> <p>There are some helpful tools: </p> <ul><li>When using the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor" title="Wikipedia:VisualEditor">visual editor</a>, 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.</li> <li>When using the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikEd" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WikEd">WikEd</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Selection_(user_interface)" title="Selection (user interface)">highlighted</a>, 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.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Interwiki_links" data-mw-thread-id="h-Interwiki_links"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Interwiki_links"></span>Interwiki links<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Interwiki_links"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">Help:Interwiki linking</a>, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" class="extiw" title="meta:Help:Interwiki linking">meta:Help:Interwiki linking</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links" title="Help:Interlanguage links">Help:Interlanguage links</a></div> <p>An <a href="/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">interwiki link</a> links to a page on another Wikimedia project website, such as <a href="/wiki/Meta-Wiki" class="mw-redirect" title="Meta-Wiki">Meta</a> or another language Wikipedia. The target site must be on the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map" class="extiw" title="m:Interwiki map">interwiki map</a> 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. </p><p>For example, <code>[[m:Help:Link]]</code> links to the "Help:Link" page on Meta, while <code>[[:commons:Athens]]</code> links to page "Athens" on <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons" title="Wikimedia Commons">Wikimedia Commons</a> as: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Athens" class="extiw" title="commons:Athens">commons:Athens</a>. </p><p>Interwiki links can be piped, just as with wikilinks. Remember that an <a href="/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links" title="Help:Interlanguage links">interlanguage link</a> should be preceded by a colon if it is to be displayed, where it is inserted in the text, as an <a href="/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links#Inline_links_(links_in_the_text_of_the_article)" title="Help:Interlanguage links">inline interlanguage link</a>; 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 <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Pipe_trick">pipe trick</a>), <code>[[:ja:Wikilink|]]</code> would be used to link to Wikilink on Japanese Wikipedia. Example: (<code>[[:ja:URL|]]</code> links to <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL" class="extiw" title="ja:URL">URL</a> on Japanese Wikipedia). </p><p>Interwiki links (like external links) are displayed in a slightly paler blue than ordinary wikilinks. The <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> page formatting does not detect whether these target pages exist, so they are never displayed in red. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="External_links" data-mw-thread-id="h-External_links"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-External_links"></span><span id="External_link">External links</span><span data-mw-comment-end="h-External_links"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links" title="Wikipedia:External links">Wikipedia:External links</a></div> <p>External links use <a href="/wiki/URL" title="URL">URLs</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Help:External_link_icons" title="Help:External link icons">external link icon</a>. For example, </p> <dl><dd><dl><dd><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[</span><span class="nl">http://www.example.org/</span><span class="w"> </span>link text<span class="p">]</span></code></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>will be rendered as </p> <dl><dd><dl><dd><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.example.org/">link text</a>.</dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>The URL must be specified in full, including the protocol: for example <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[</span><span class="nl">http://...</span><span class="p">]</span></code> or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[</span><span class="nl">https://...</span><span class="p">]</span></code>. Short form URLs that are accepted in some other (non-Wikimedia) contexts like <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr">[example.org/ link text]</code> or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr">[www.example.org/ link text]</code> 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]". </p><p>When no link text is specified, external links appear numbered: <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[</span><span class="nl">http://www.example.org/some-page</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="nl">http://www.example.org/some-other-page</span><span class="p">]</span></code> becomes <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.example.org/some-page">[1]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.example.org/some-other-page">[2]</a>. Links with no square brackets display in their entirety: <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="nl">http://www.example.org/</span></code> displays as <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.example.org/">http://www.example.org/</a>. </p><p>For more detailed information on external linking practices, see <a href="/wiki/Help:URL#Linking_to_URLs" title="Help:URL">Help:URL § Linking to URLs</a>. Also note that <a href="/wiki/Special:LinkSearch" title="Special:LinkSearch">Special:LinkSearch</a> can be used to find all pages linking to a given site. </p><p>The external link syntax can also be used to link to particular pages within Wikipedia that are not accessible by wikilinks, such as <a href="/wiki/Help:Page_history" title="Help:Page history">page history</a>, the edit view, an old version of a page, the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Diff" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Diff">diff</a> between two versions, etc. It can also be used to create a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Navigational_image" class="extiw" title="m:Help:Navigational image">navigational image</a>. </p><p>To display an external link without the arrow icon, place the external link syntax between <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-html mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">span</span> <span class="na">class</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"plainlinks"</span><span class="p">></span>...<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">span</span><span class="p">></span></code> tags. For instance, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">span</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="na">class</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"plainlinks"</span><span class="p">>[</span><span class="nl">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Link&action=history</span><span class="w"> </span>this page's history<span class="p">]</</span><span class="nt">span</span><span class="p">></span></code>, or its template equivalent <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Plainlink" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Plainlink">Plainlink</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">plainlink</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">url</span><span class="o">=</span>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Link&action=history<span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">name</span><span class="o">=</span>this page's history<span class="p">}}</span></code>, will be rendered as: <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Link&action=history">this page's history</a></span>. If you make frequent use of this, the <a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/extension:CharInsert">CharInsert</a> gadget (which can be activated under <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets" title="Special:Preferences">Gadgets</a> → Editing → CharInsert</span>), has an option to insert this text in its "Wiki markup" mode. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="http:_and_https:" data-mw-thread-id="h-http:_and_https:-External_links"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-http:_and_https:-External_links"></span><span id="Http:_and_https:">http: and https:</span><span data-mw-comment-end="h-http:_and_https:-External_links"></span></h3></div> <p><a class="external text" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/">In mid-2015</a>, Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia sites were changed to use <a href="/wiki/HTTPS" title="HTTPS">HTTPS</a> to encrypt all traffic. Accessing a URL like <code><a class="external free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link</a></code> will result in the webserver redirecting you to <code><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link">http<u>s</u>://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link</a></code>. Therefore, when making an external-style link to an internal page (that is, using single square brackets, or a bare URL), <code>https</code> should be specified to avoid the needless redirect, as in <code><a class="external free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Link&action=history">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Link&action=history</a></code>. </p><p>In the past, when Wikipedia could be accessed via either HTTP or HTTPS, a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PRURL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PRURL">protocol-relative URL</a> could be used to make an external link (or external-style link to an internal page) which would use <code>http:</code> or <code>https:</code> depending on how the page the link appeared on was accessed, as in <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">[</span><span class="nl">//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links</span><span class="p">]</span></code>. However, as all Wikimedia sites now require HTTPS, this linking style is obsolete and should no longer be used. <code>http:</code> or <code>https:</code> should be explicitly specified as appropriate for the target site (preferring <code>https:</code>, where available). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="What_is_an_"anchor"?" data-mw-thread-id="h-What_is_an_"anchor"?"><span id="What_is_an_.22anchor.22.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-What_is_an_"anchor"?"></span>What is an "anchor"?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-What_is_an_"anchor"?"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ANCHOR_DEF"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ANCHOR_DEF&redirect=no">WP:ANCHOR DEF</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>The word "anchor" has two opposite meanings. </p><p>In the context of a link from an <i>anchor</i> to a <i>target</i>, it is the starting place. </p><p>In the context of the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Anchor" title="Template:Anchor">anchor</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template, an "anchor" is a landing place for a link to jump to. The anchor <i>template</i> automatically creates some invisible coding from <i>certain text in the template</i> in the "landing place". In this context, the word "anchor" may refer to: </p> <ul><li>the text and parameters, in the template, from which the invisible code is created,</li> <li>the mostly invisible HTML code, or</li> <li>the landing place/location/spot in itself.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Section_linking_(anchors)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Section_linking_(anchors)"><span id="Section_linking_.28anchors.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Section_linking_(anchors)"></span>Section linking (anchors)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Section_linking_(anchors)"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ANCHOR"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ANCHOR&redirect=no">WP:ANCHOR</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Help:Section#Section_linking" title="Help:Section">Help:Section § Section linking</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking#Section_links" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking § Section links</a></div> <p>To link to a section or subsection in another page, append a <code>#</code> and the section name to the page name: </p> <dl><dd><span class="nowrap"><code>[[Page name#Section name|displayed text]]</code></span></dd></dl> <p>For linking in the same page, omit the page name and use a <code>#</code> and the section name: </p> <dl><dd><span class="nowrap"><code>[[#Section name|displayed text]]</code></span></dd></dl> <p>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. </p><p>To format a link with the <a href="/wiki/Section_sign" title="Section sign">section sign</a> (§) instead of a # (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Page_name#Section_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Page name">Page name § Section name</a> rather than <a href="/wiki/Page_name#Section_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Page name">Page name#Section name</a>), use the template <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Section_link" title="Template:Section link">Section link</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> (or <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Slink" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Slink">slink</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>): </p> <dl><dd><span class="nowrap"><code>{{Section link|Page name|Section name}}</code></span></dd></dl> <p>Note that <code>Section names</code> are entirely case sensitive, in contrast to article links, where the first letter is not case sensitive. </p><p>The characters <code>[ ] { | }</code> require encoding when linking to a section: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>[</th> <th>]</th> <th>{</th> <th>|</th> <th>} </th></tr> <tr> <td>.5B</td> <td>.5D</td> <td>.7B</td> <td>.7C</td> <td>.7D </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>For example, the section "[Closed] Complaint" can be linked with <code>[[#.5BClosed.5D Complaint]]</code>. 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. </p><p>For more information, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Section" title="Help:Section">Help:Section</a>. See also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect#Targeted_and_untargeted_redirects" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">Wikipedia:Redirect § Targeted and untargeted redirects</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Specifics" data-mw-thread-id="h-Specifics-Section_linking_(anchors)"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Specifics-Section_linking_(anchors)"></span>Specifics<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Specifics-Section_linking_(anchors)"></span></h3></div> <p>When a link contains a section title (as in the examples above), the title actually points to an HTML <i><a href="/wiki/HTML_element#Anchor" title="HTML element">anchor</a></i> 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 <a href="#Linking_to_part_of_a_section">§ Linking to part of a section</a> below). This can be done using <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Anchor" title="Template:Anchor">Anchor</a>|anchor name}}</code>, or alternatively, the <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a> code <span class="nowrap"><code><span id="anchor name">...</span></code></span> (see <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Anchor" title="Template:Anchor">Anchor</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> 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 <a href="/wiki/MOS:HEADINGS" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:HEADINGS">MOS:HEADINGS</a> for more info. Links to anchors can also be added to external URLs and to interwiki links, again using the <code>#</code> syntax. </p><p>Section links still work through page names that are <a href="/wiki/Help:Redirect" title="Help:Redirect">redirects</a>. For example, if <a href="/wiki/Danzig" class="mw-redirect" title="Danzig">Danzig</a> redirects to <a href="/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk" title="Gdańsk">Gdańsk</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Danzig#History" class="mw-redirect" title="Danzig">Danzig#History</a> 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, <a href="/wiki/MOS:SECTLINK" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:SECTLINK">according to the Manual of Style</a>, it may be preferable to define such redirects, and use them when linking to those sections/anchors, rather than linking using the <span class="nowrap"><code>[[Page name#Section or anchor name|displayed text]]</code></span> or <span class="nowrap"><code>{{Section link|Page name|Section name}}</code></span> syntax. This way, if the section or anchored text later becomes its own article, links via the redirect won't need to be rewritten. </p><p>For example, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Section_link" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Section link">Wikipedia:Section link</a> redirects specifically to the section <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Section_linking_(anchors)">Help:Link#Section linking (anchors)</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Section_link#Interwiki_links" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Section link">Wikipedia:Section link#Interwiki links</a> would go to the "Interwiki links" section of this page. Such overriding of section redirects should be avoided. </p><p>The <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Visible_anchor" title="Template:Visible anchor">Visible anchor</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template can be used to create <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238216509">.mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#b1d2ff}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}</style><span class="vanchor"><span id="Visible_anchor_example"></span><span class="vanchor-text">an anchor associated with text that is highlighted when the anchor is linked to</span></span> (<a href="#Visible_anchor_example">example - click here</a>). The template's first parameter will be used as both the anchor and the display text (<code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|text=</code> can be used to provide different display text). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Duplicate_section_names" data-mw-thread-id="h-Duplicate_section_names-Section_linking_(anchors)"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Duplicate_section_names-Section_linking_(anchors)"></span>Duplicate section names<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Duplicate_section_names-Section_linking_(anchors)"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:DUPSECTNAME"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DUPSECTNAME&redirect=no">WP:DUPSECTNAME</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>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 <i>with</i> 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Linking_to_part_of_a_section" data-mw-thread-id="h-Linking_to_part_of_a_section-Section_linking_(anchors)"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Linking_to_part_of_a_section-Section_linking_(anchors)"></span>Linking to part of a section<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Linking_to_part_of_a_section-Section_linking_(anchors)"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:LINKPART"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LINKPART&redirect=no">WP:LINKPART</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="#Table_row_linking">§ Table row linking</a></div> <p>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. </p><p>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}} ). </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Draft:Sandbox" title="Draft:Sandbox">sandbox</a> 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). </p><p>There are a small number of special anchor names. See <a href="#Table_row_linking">§ Table row linking</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Table_row_linking" data-mw-thread-id="h-Table_row_linking"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Table_row_linking"></span>Table row linking<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Table_row_linking"></span></h2></div> <p>To create an anchor for a row of a table, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Tables_and_locations#Section_link_or_map_link_to_a_row_anchor" title="Help:Tables and locations">Help:Tables and locations § Section link or map link to a row anchor</a>. However, <code>[[#top]]</code> and <code>[[#toc]]</code> are reserved names that link to the top of a page and the table of contents, respectively. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Piped_link" data-mw-thread-id="h-Piped_link"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Piped_link"></span>Piped link<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Piped_link"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick" title="Help:Pipe trick">Help:Pipe trick</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="H:PIPE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:PIPE&redirect=no">H:PIPE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>A <b>piped link</b> is an internal link or <a href="/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">interwiki link</a> 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: </p> <ul><li><code><b>[[cheese]]</b></code> <i>(label = target, no pipe needed)</i> <dl><dd>produces <a href="/wiki/Cheese" title="Cheese">cheese</a>, linked to the article <b>Cheese</b>.</dd></dl></li> <li><code><b>[[cheese]]s</b></code> <i>(label = target + extension ["s"], no pipe needed)</i> <dl><dd>produces <a href="/wiki/Cheese" title="Cheese">cheeses</a>, linked to the article <b>Cheese</b>.</dd></dl></li> <li><code><b>[[blue cheese|cheese]]</b></code> <i>(label = part of target, pipe required)</i> <dl><dd>produces <a href="/wiki/Blue_cheese" title="Blue cheese">cheese</a>, linked to the article <b>Blue cheese</b>.</dd></dl></li> <li><code><b>[[cheese|blue cheese]]</b></code> <i>(label = target + additional text ["blue"], pipe required)</i> <dl><dd>produces <a href="/wiki/Cheese" title="Cheese">blue cheese</a>, linked to the article <b>Cheese</b>.</dd></dl></li> <li><code><b>[[cheese|that stuff]]</b></code> <i>(label is completely different from target, pipe required)</i> <dl><dd>produces <a href="/wiki/Cheese" title="Cheese">that stuff</a>, linked to the article <b>Cheese</b>.</dd></dl></li></ul> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Help:Preferences" title="Help:Preferences">preferences</a> 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. </p><p>For instance: </p><p><code>[[Train station|station]]</code><br/> will show: <a href="/wiki/Train_station" title="Train station">station</a> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Station" class="mw-disambig" title="Station">station</a> which might be a disambiguation page. </p><p>The word <i>piped</i> 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 <a href="/wiki/Pipe_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipe (computing)">Pipe (computing)</a>. </p><p>There are various tricks to get the same result with less typing: </p> <ul><li>Leave the part to the right empty – the "<a href="#Automatic_conversion_of_wikitext_with_the_pipe_trick">pipe trick</a>"</li> <li>Leave the part to the left empty – the "<a href="#Inverse_pipe_trick">inverse pipe trick</a>"</li> <li>Just attach text to the link, as in "[[train]]s", see <a href="/wiki/MOS:PIPE" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:PIPE">MOS:PIPE</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Using_a_redirect_as_alternative" data-mw-thread-id="h-Using_a_redirect_as_alternative-Piped_link"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Using_a_redirect_as_alternative-Piped_link"></span>Using a redirect as alternative<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Using_a_redirect_as_alternative-Piped_link"></span></h3></div> <p>An alternative to a piped link is using <a href="/wiki/Help:Redirect" title="Help:Redirect">redirect pages</a>. For example, to create <a href="/w/index.php?title=How_to_set_up_a_coffee_house&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="How to set up a coffee house (page does not exist)">How to set up a coffee house</a>, use <code>[[How to set up a coffee house]]</code> and make this a redirect to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Coffeehouse_setup&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Coffeehouse setup (page does not exist)">coffeehouse setup</a>. This is convenient if the redirect is already there or will also be of use elsewhere; however, there are a few drawbacks: </p> <ul><li>The tooltip does not show the page one will arrive at.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Help:Related_changes" title="Help:Related changes">Related changes</a>" gives the changes in the <i>redirect page</i>, not the redirect target.</li></ul> <p>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, e.g., the pipe to a redirect <code>[[United Nations Organization|UNO]]</code> will display a tooltip "United Nations Organization" when hovering over <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Organization">UNO</a>, thereby explaining the abbreviation. (However, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Abbr" title="Template:Abbr">abbr</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> is preferred for abbreviations.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Automatic_conversion_of_wikitext_with_the_pipe_trick" data-mw-thread-id="h-Automatic_conversion_of_wikitext_with_the_pipe_trick-Piped_link"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Automatic_conversion_of_wikitext_with_the_pipe_trick-Piped_link"></span>Automatic conversion of wikitext with the pipe trick<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Automatic_conversion_of_wikitext_with_the_pipe_trick-Piped_link"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick" title="Help:Pipe trick">Help:Pipe trick</a></div> <p>If in a piped link the part after the "|" is left empty, it is <a href="/wiki/Help:Automatic_conversion_of_wikitext" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Automatic conversion of wikitext">converted</a> to an abbreviated form of the linked page, as follows: </p> <ol><li>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".</li> <li>If there is text in parentheses at the end it will be removed.</li> <li>If there are no parentheses but there is a comma, the comma and everything after it are removed.</li> <li>The link will be in whatever case is used.</li></ol> <p>Just like for the three or four tildes when signing on Talk pages and the use of <code>subst</code>, 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. </p> <dl><dt>Category tag</dt> <dd>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.</dd> <dt>Examples using colons</dt> <dd><code>[[Help:Template|]]</code> is converted to [[Help:Template|Template]], which is rendered as <a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">Template</a>.</dd> <dd><code>[[Music: My life|]]</code> is converted to [[Music: My life| My life]], which is rendered as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Music:_My_life&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Music: My life (page does not exist)"> My life</a> – although "Music:" is not a namespace (therefore the space after the colon is not automatically removed), the shortcut works anyway.</dd> <dd><code>[[w:en:Pipe (computing)|]]</code> is converted to [[w:en:Pipe (computing)|en:Pipe]], which is rendered as <a href="/wiki/Pipe_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipe (computing)">en:Pipe</a>.</dd> <dt>Case examples</dt> <dd><code>[[pipe (computing)|]]</code> is converted to [[pipe (computing)|pipe]] which is rendered as <a href="/wiki/Pipe_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipe (computing)">pipe</a>.</dd> <dd><code>[[Pipe (computing)|]]</code> is converted to [[Pipe (computing)|Pipe]] which is rendered as <a href="/wiki/Pipe_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipe (computing)">Pipe</a>.</dd> <dt>Comma example</dt> <dd><code>[[commons:Boston, Massachusetts|]]</code> is converted to [[commons:Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], which is rendered as <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="extiw" title="commons:Boston, Massachusetts">Boston</a>.</dd> <dt>Other examples</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Help:Templates#Parameters" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Templates">Parameters</a> and <a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Variables" title="Help:Magic words">variables</a>:</dd> <dd><code>[[w:{{{1}}}|]]</code> does <i>not</i> give [[w:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]].</dd> <dd>Calling the template with a value of parameter 1 gives a working link in the case of substitution only.</dd> <dd><code>[[w:en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|]]</code> does <i>not</i> give [[w:en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]].</dd> <dd><code>[[m:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|]]</code> does <i>not</i> give [[m:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]</dd></dl> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="k">*</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">project</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">a (b)</span><span class="p">|]]</span> <span class="k">*</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">w:project</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">a (b)</span><span class="p">|]]</span> <span class="k">*</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">:de:project</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">a (b)</span><span class="p">|]]</span> <span class="k">*</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">wiktionary:project</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">a (b)</span><span class="p">|]]</span> <span class="k">*</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">wiktionary:de:project</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">a (b)</span><span class="p">|]]</span> <span class="k">*</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">wikibooks:project</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">a (b)</span><span class="p">|]]</span> <span class="k">*</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">wikiquote:project</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">a (b)</span><span class="p">|]]</span> <span class="k">*</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">wikisource:project</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nt">a (b)</span><span class="p">|]]</span> <span class="k">*</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">w:en</span><span class="p">:{{</span><span class="nf">FULLPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}|]]</span> <span class="k">**</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">w:en</span><span class="p">:{{</span><span class="nf">FULLPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}|</span>en:<span class="p">{{</span><span class="nf">FULLPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}]]</span> <span class="k">*</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">m</span><span class="p">:{{</span><span class="nf">FULLPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}|]]</span> <span class="k">**</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="nn">m</span><span class="p">:{{</span><span class="nf">FULLPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}|{{</span><span class="nf">FULLPAGENAME</span><span class="p">}}]]</span> </pre></div> <p>These examples appear as: </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:A_(b)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:A (b) (page does not exist)">a</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:A_(b)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:A (b) (page does not exist)">project:a</a></li> <li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/project:a_(b)" class="extiw" title="de:project:a (b)">project:a</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/project:a_(b)" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:project:a (b)">project:a</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de:project:a_(b)" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:de:project:a (b)">de:project:a</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/project:a_(b)" class="extiw" title="wikibooks:project:a (b)">project:a</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/project:a_(b)" class="extiw" title="wikiquote:project:a (b)">project:a</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/project:a_(b)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:project:a (b)">project:a</a></li> <li>[[w:en:Help:Link|]] <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">en:Help:Link</a></li></ul></li> <li>[[m:Help:Link|]] <ul><li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link" class="extiw" title="m:Help:Link">Help:Link</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Inverse_pipe_trick" data-mw-thread-id="h-Inverse_pipe_trick-Piped_link"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Inverse_pipe_trick-Piped_link"></span>Inverse pipe trick<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Inverse_pipe_trick-Piped_link"></span></h3></div> <p>On page "A (c)", <code>[[|B]]</code> is automatically converted to [[B (c)|B]]. </p><p>Similarly, on page "A, c", <code>[[|B]]</code> is automatically converted to [[B, c|B]]. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick#Reverse_pipe_trick" title="Help:Pipe trick">Further examples are here.</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Subpage_links" data-mw-thread-id="h-Subpage_links"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Subpage_links"></span>Subpage links<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Subpage_links"></span></h2></div> <p>A wikilink needs a <kbd>[[<i>fullpagename</i>]]</kbd>, and this is not optional except when it links to or from a <a href="/wiki/Help:Subpage" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Subpage">subpage</a>. A wikilink to its parent page is <kbd>[[../]]</kbd>, and, although no page name is given, the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pgn" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Pgn">fullpagename</a> is rendered. On the parent a wikilink to a subpage can use <kbd>[[/<i>subpagename</i>]]</kbd> to render a subpagename instead. </p><p>Although subpages are created in article space, subpage linking does not fully function there. </p><p>Subpage linking works as expected to link to any pages under a root parent page: </p> <ul><li>section linking: <kbd>[[../#<i>section</i>]]</kbd></li> <li>child-to-child subpage linking: <kbd>[[../<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pgn#Subpagename_and_basepagename" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Pgn">subpagename</a></i>]]</kbd></li> <li>parent's parent <kbd>[[../../]]</kbd></li> <li>including the <kbd>[[../|<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pipe_trick" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Pipe trick"><i>pipe trick</i></a></kbd></li> <li>and including <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transclusions</a>: <kbd>{{../}} </kbd> and <kbd>{{/<i>subpagename</i>}} </kbd></li></ul> <p>Consider that there are about 140 <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=prefix%3AWikipedia%3A+Manual+of+style%2F&ns0=1&fulltext=Search">subpages of the <i>Manual of style</i></a></span> 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: </p> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility/Signatures" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Signatures">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Signatures</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility/Data_tables_tutorial" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility/Data_tables_tutorial/Internal_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial/Internal guidelines">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial/Internal guidelines</a></dd></dl> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>On subpagename</th> <th>You type</th> <th>You get</th> <th>Links to </th></tr> <tr> <td>Data tables tutorial</td> <td><code>[[../]]</code></td> <td><span style="color:blue;">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility</span></td> <td>Parent </td></tr> <tr> <td>Internalguidelines</td> <td><code>[[../../]]</code></td> <td><span style="color:blue;">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility</span></td> <td>Grandparent </td></tr> <tr> <td>Accessibility</td> <td><code>[[/Signatures]]</code></td> <td><span style="color:blue;">/Signatures</span></td> <td>Child </td></tr> <tr> <td>Accessibility</td> <td><code>[[/Signatures<mark>/</mark>]]</code></td> <td><span style="color:blue;">Signatures</span></td> <td>Child </td></tr> <tr> <td>Data tables tutorial</td> <td><code>[[../Signatures]]</code></td> <td><span style="color:blue;">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Signatures</span></td> <td>Sibling </td></tr> <tr> <td>Data tables tutorial</td> <td><code>[[../Signatures/]]</code></td> <td><span style="color:blue;">Signatures</span></td> <td>Sibling </td></tr> <tr> <td>Internalguidelines</td> <td style="white-space:nowrap"><code>[[../../Signatures]]</code></td> <td><span style="color:blue;">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Signatures</span></td> <td>Uncle </td></tr> <tr> <td>Signatures</td> <td style="white-space:nowrap"><code>[[../Data tables tutorial/Internal guidelines]]</code></td> <td><span style="color:blue;">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial/Internal guidelines</span></td> <td>Nephew </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>To see this page's array of subpage variables and markup four levels deep, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Link/one/two/three/four" title="Help:Link/one/two/three/four">/one/two/three/four</a>, and from there go to level two at <i>one/two</i>. </p><p>Markup <kbd>[[../]]</kbd> addresses the <i>basepagename</i>, except when a <i>pagename</i> includes a <kbd>/</kbd> slash character (allowed), the basepagename/subpagename variables' characters are skewed. To see all this, and how adding an extra <kbd>../</kbd> construct fixes the resulting <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redlink" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redlink">redlink</a>, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Link/sub/page/name1/sub/page/name2/subpage_level_3" title="Help:Link/sub/page/name1/sub/page/name2/subpage level 3">/sub/page/name1/sub/page/name2/subpage level 3</a>, and from there go to <i>sub/page/name2</i>. </p><p>Note that the top of every subpage shows the <a href="/wiki/Breadcrumb_(navigation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Breadcrumb (navigation)">navigation links</a> to all <i>parent</i> subpagenames. From these you can easily gauge levels and linking constructs. </p><p>For more information: </p> <ul><li>See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_name#Subpagename_and_basepagename" title="Wikipedia:Page name">Wikipedia:Page name#Subpagename and basepagename</a>.</li> <li><i>Create</i> a subpage by using a <i><a href="/wiki/Help:Red_link" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Red link">red link</a></i>.</li> <li>See <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#Subpage_feature" class="extiw" title="m:Help:Link">m:Help:Link#Subpage feature</a>.</li> <li>See examples at <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Link/a/b" class="extiw" title="m:Link/a/b">m:Link/a/b</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link/a/b" class="extiw" title="m:Help:Link/a/b">m:Help:Link/a/b</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Special_pages_links" data-mw-thread-id="h-Special_pages_links"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Special_pages_links"></span>Special pages links<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Special_pages_links"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Help:Special_page#Linking_to_or_listing_special_pages" title="Help:Special page">Help:Special page § Linking to or listing special pages</a></div> <p>To create a link to a special page: </p><p><code>[[Special:PrefixIndex/HMS]]</code> → <a href="/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/HMS" title="Special:PrefixIndex/HMS">Special:PrefixIndex/HMS</a> </p><p>Because the ampersand character (&) is disallowed, it is not possible to create an ordinary link containing <code>&action=edit</code> or <code>&redirect=no</code> in the URL query string. In these cases, use templates or magic words, see <a href="#Links_containing_URL_query_strings">#Links containing URL query strings</a>. </p><p>For example, you can use a template such as <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Plain_link" title="Template:Plain link">Plain link</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> to encode a Wikimedia url link, such as one pointing to a special page with parameters. </p> <dl><dd>{{Plain link|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=79269392|name=15:21, 8 December 2016}}</dd></dl> <p>gives </p> <dl><dd><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=79269392">15:21, 8 December 2016</a></span></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Changing_link_appearance" data-mw-thread-id="h-Changing_link_appearance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Changing_link_appearance"></span>Changing link appearance<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Changing_link_appearance"></span></h2></div> <p>The ways that various links are displayed in browsers, as described above, are the default display styles in the default <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin" title="Wikipedia:Skin">skin</a>. Users can change the way they see links: </p> <ul><li>By selecting a different skin.</li> <li>By applying a <a href="/wiki/Help:User_style" title="Help:User style">user style</a> using CSS (see <a href="/wiki/Help:Link_color" title="Help:Link color">Help:Link color</a>).</li> <li>By changing the "Underline links" value on the <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering" title="Special:Preferences">Appearance tab</a> of <a href="/wiki/Help:Preferences" title="Help:Preferences">user preferences</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Hover_tooltips" data-mw-thread-id="h-Hover_tooltips"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Hover_tooltips"></span>Hover tooltips<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Hover_tooltips"></span></h2></div> <p>In many browsers, holding the cursor over a link (<a href="/wiki/Mouseover" title="Mouseover">mouseover</a>) shows a hover <a href="/wiki/Tooltip" title="Tooltip">tooltip</a> containing the text of the link's <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a> <code>title</code> 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 (<a href="/wiki/URL" title="URL">URL</a>) if it's an external link. (This can be switched off in the <a href="/wiki/Help:Preferences" title="Help:Preferences">user preferences</a>.) The browser may also show similar information, including any section indication, in the status bar. </p><p>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 <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Tooltip" title="Template:Tooltip">Tooltip</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Disallowed_characters" data-mw-thread-id="h-Disallowed_characters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Disallowed_characters"></span>Disallowed characters<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Disallowed_characters"></span></h2></div> <p>A link whose target contains disallowed characters (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_name" title="Wikipedia:Page name">WP:Page name</a>) will be displayed without markup, as in <code>[[A{b}]]</code>. </p><p>Conversions are automatically made to <a href="/wiki/Help:Special_characters" title="Help:Special characters">non-literal characters</a> in wiki and interwiki links. For example, <code>[[Help:Page%20name]]</code> becomes <code><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_name" title="Help:Page name">Help:Page name</a></code>. However, the opposite is true for external links; literal characters are converted into non-literal characters. For example, most browsers convert <code>.../wiki/!</code> to <code>.../wiki/%21</code>. </p><p>Some characters in a web address link need to be represented as <a href="/wiki/Escape_character" title="Escape character">escape characters</a> because they are reserved for Wikipedia edits. Examples include <code>%5B</code> for <code>[</code>, <code>%5D</code> for <code>]</code>, <code>%3C</code> for <code><</code>, <code>%3E</code> for <code>></code>, <code>%7B</code> for <code>{</code>, <code>%7D</code> for <code>}</code>, <code>%7C</code> for <code>|</code>, and <code>%26</code> for <code>&</code>. More can be found by reading about <a href="/wiki/Percent_encoding#Percent-encoding_reserved_characters" class="mw-redirect" title="Percent encoding">percent encoding</a>. <a href="/wiki/Numeric_character_reference" title="Numeric character reference">Numeric character references</a> (e.g. <code>&#91;</code> or <code>&#x5B;</code>) should not be used in external links because the ampersand character (&) has a special meaning in a URL. </p><p>In excessive cases, an automatic <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP">percent encoder such as the one at W3 Schools</a> (use the second JavaScript form under "URL Encoding Functions") is probably the simplest solution. For example, pasting <code>Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 41#{{Cite book}} and |contribution problems</code> into that form yields the wikilink <code>[[Help%20talk%3ACitation%20Style%201%2FArchive%2041%23%7B%7BCite%20book%7D%7D%20and%20%7Ccontribution%20problems]]</code>, which appears as <a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_41#{{Cite_book}}_and_|contribution_problems" title="Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 41">Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 41#{{Cite book}} and |contribution problems</a>, as desired.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Links_containing_URL_query_strings"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Links_containing_ampersands" data-mw-thread-id="h-Links_containing_ampersands-Disallowed_characters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Links_containing_ampersands-Disallowed_characters"></span>Links containing ampersands<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Links_containing_ampersands-Disallowed_characters"></span></h3></div> <p>Because the <a href="/wiki/Ampersand" title="Ampersand">ampersand character</a> (&) is disallowed, it is not possible to create an ordinary link containing <code>&action=edit</code> or <code>&redirect=no</code> 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: </p> <ul><li>You can use the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Querylink" title="Template:Querylink">Querylink</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template to append query parameters to a Wikipedia page URL. For example, <code>{{Querylink|Help:Link|qs=action=history|this page's history}}</code> produces the link <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link?action=history">this page's history</a></span>.</li> <li>You can use the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Plain_link" title="Template:Plain link">Plain link</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template to encode a Wikimedia url link. For example,<code>{{Plain link|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=79269392|name=query}}</code> yields the link <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=79269392">query</a></span>.</li> <li>You can use the <a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words" title="Help:Magic words">magic word</a> <code>fullurl</code>. For example, to append <code>action=edit</code> to a URL query string you could use <code>[{{fullurl:Help:Link|action=history}} this page's history]</code>, which renders as <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Link&action=history">this page's history</a>. 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.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Link_reports" data-mw-thread-id="h-Link_reports"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Link_reports"></span>Link reports<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Link_reports"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Help:What_links_here" title="Help:What links here">Help:What links here</a></div> <p>The navigable links to a page are wikilinks, redirects, and external-styled wikilinks. The <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Orphan" title="Template:Orphan">orphan</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> tag can be placed on pages with no incoming wikilinks. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="To_a_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-To_a_page-Link_reports"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-To_a_page-Link_reports"></span>To a page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-To_a_page-Link_reports"></span></h3></div> <p>Each link to a page is a link to a <i>name</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No one report shows all links to the <i>content</i>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Help:What_links_here" title="Help:What links here">What links here</a> tool, on every page, will report all wikilinks and all redirects to the <i>content</i> of that page. (You get the wikilinks to the redirects too.) The <a href="/wiki/H:S" class="mw-redirect" title="H:S">search</a> parameter <b>linksto</b> will find wikilinks only. Both report (invisible) wikilinks placed by a transclusion through a {{<a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">template</a>}}. The difference between them is that <i>linksto</i> reports a count of links to <i>a page name</i>, while <i>WhatLinksHere</i> reports a map of links to <i>the page as content</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="To_a_section" data-mw-thread-id="h-To_a_section-Link_reports"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-To_a_section-Link_reports"></span>To a section<span data-mw-comment-end="h-To_a_section-Link_reports"></span></h3></div> <p>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 <kbd>#<i>section</i></kbd><span class="nowrap"> </span> to it even though it appears as <code>[[<i>page name</i>]]</code>. A wikilink that links to a section <i>and</i> that appears as <code>[[<i>page name</i>#<i>section name</i>]]</code> 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. </p><p>To find wikilinks to a section requires two or more reports. </p> <ol><li><b>Show redirects only</b>, an external tool available from the <b>What links here</b> page, reports redirects to the <i>content</i> of a section. (No matter which page <i>name</i> you give it, you get all the redirect page names.) Look past any "<i><b>No anchor or section</b></i>" 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.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ("What Links Here" also has a "show redirects" report, but it doesn't specify if the redirect goes to any particular section.)</li> <li>Use "What Links Here" on any redirect pages found in the previous step.</li> <li>Use <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Links_to" title="Template:Links to">Links to</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> 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.</li></ol> <p>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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="From_a_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-From_a_page-Link_reports"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-From_a_page-Link_reports"></span>From a page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-From_a_page-Link_reports"></span></h3></div> <p>To report links <i>from</i> a page, you simply list all the wikilinks on that page. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Editing_tools#Relink" title="Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools">Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools § Relink</a> can count wikilinks from a copy of the wikitext on your local machine.</li> <li>Some <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Text editor support">text editors support</a> the counting and highlighting of the <code>[[...]]</code> pattern occurrences.</li> <li>The Wikipedia <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface#Web_APIs" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">web API</a> accepts queries by URL.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>One way to send a query to the API is by creating an external link (<a href="#External_links">§ External links</a>). 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 "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Example" title="Wikipedia:Example">wp:example</a>". It should interpret it correctly as "Wikipedia:Example", <i>pageid 25263910</i>. </p> <dl><dt>What you type</dt> <dd><kbd>[//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&pllimit=500&titles=<i>fullpagename</i> <i>your label</i>]</kbd></dd> <dt>What you get when fullpagename is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Example" title="Wikipedia:Example">wp:example</a></dt> <dd><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&pllimit=500&titles=wp:example"><i>your label</i></a></dd></dl> <ul><li>The report is in <a href="/wiki/JSON" title="JSON">JSON</a> format, as is usual for RESTful APIs.</li> <li>The pageid is available from <b>Page information</b> on every page.</li> <li>The <kbd>titles</kbd> parameter is plural. (It is designed to take multiple fullpagenames or pageid, delimited by the | pipe character.)</li> <li>The number of links returned by this query is limited to 500, per the URL you created. See <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query" class="extiw" title="mw:API:Query">mw:API:Query</a> for how to safely get more. For example, <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a> has 510 wikilinks.</li></ul> <p>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: <kbd>[[<i>pagename</i>| ]]</kbd>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Additional_link-related_functions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Additional_link-related_functions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Additional_link-related_functions"></span>Additional link-related functions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Additional_link-related_functions"></span></h2></div> <p>For the effect that links have on date formatting, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Date_formatting_and_linking" title="Help:Date formatting and linking">Help:Date formatting and linking</a>. </p><p>Another link-dependent feature is <a href="/wiki/Help:Related_changes" title="Help:Related changes">related changes</a>, 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). </p><p>For information on how to link to pages from an image, see <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:ImageMap">mw:Extension:ImageMap</a>. </p><p>Several <a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">templates</a> have been created to make linking easier (although they are not usually used in article space). These include <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Tl" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Tl">tl</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Tlx" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Tlx">tlx</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> for linking to templates, and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cl" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Cl">cl</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Lc" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Lc">lc</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> for linking to categories. More can be found in <a href="/wiki/Category:Internal_link_templates" title="Category:Internal link templates">Category:Internal link templates</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Conversion_to_canonical_form" data-mw-thread-id="h-Conversion_to_canonical_form"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Conversion_to_canonical_form"></span>Conversion to canonical form<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Conversion_to_canonical_form"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Title.php#Canonical_forms" class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:Title.php">mw:Manual:Title.php § Canonical forms</a></div> <p>As <a href="#Wikilinks">described previously</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Help:Namespace" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Namespace">namespace</a> prefix, then the whole prefix and the first character after the colon are case-insensitive (so <a href="/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales" title="User:Jimbo Wales">uSeR:jimbo Wales</a> links to <a href="/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales" title="User:Jimbo Wales">User:Jimbo Wales</a>). </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales" title="User:Jimbo Wales">_User_: Jimbo_ __ Wales__</a> links to <a href="/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales" title="User:Jimbo Wales">User:Jimbo Wales</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/HTML_character_reference" class="mw-redirect" title="HTML character reference">HTML character references</a> and <a href="/wiki/Percent_encoding" class="mw-redirect" title="Percent encoding">percent-encoded</a> characters are replaced with their raw character. For example, <code>[[d&eacute;partement]]</code> produces <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9partement" class="mw-redirect" title="Département">département</a>, and <code>[[%40]]</code> produces <a href="/wiki/@" class="mw-redirect" title="@">@</a>. Links which resolve to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)">invalid page titles</a> are displayed as unmarked-up wikitext. </p><p>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: </p> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transclusion</a> tags for non-existent pages: <code>{{qwsazx}}</code> gives <a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Qwsazx&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Qwsazx (page does not exist)">Template:Qwsazx</a>.</li> <li>In tooltips and in the status bar (if applicable for the browser) when the mouse cursor is moved over the link.</li> <li>On <a href="/wiki/Help:Redirect" title="Help:Redirect">redirect</a> pages.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Category">category</a> box.</li></ul> <p>The prefixes in <a href="/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">interwiki links</a> 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 <i>not</i> automatically capitalized (whether it is interpreted as a capital depends on the configuration of the target wiki). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:Edward/Find_link" title="User:Edward/Find link">Find link tool</a>: a simple tool that lets you search for articles to consider adding links to.</li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Links">MediaWiki help page on links</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Link_color" title="Help:Link color">Help:Link color</a>: the color of a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LINK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LINK">link</a> shows the status of the corresponding target page.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick" title="Help:Pipe trick">Help:Pipe trick</a>: uses the <a href="/wiki/Pipe_character" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipe character">pipe character</a> ("<code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">|</code>") to save typing the label of a piped link.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Permanent_link" title="Help:Permanent link">Help:Permanent link</a>: creating a permanent link to a page revision.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:V111P/js/Smart_Linking" title="User:V111P/js/Smart Linking">Smart Linking tool</a>: a tool for linking and previewing the linked article above the text box with the wiki code.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Self_link" title="Help:Self link">Help:Self link</a>: self links is a link to the page itself. A self-link to a page appears as bold text when the article is viewed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Wikipedia:Shortcut</a>: a specialized type of redirect page that provides an abbreviated wikilink to a project page.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Colon_trick" title="Help:Colon trick">Help:Colon trick</a>: a trick when providing category, image or interwiki links.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan#Step_2:_Finding_related_articles" title="Wikipedia:Orphan">Wikipedia:Orphan § Step 2: Finding related articles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Tony1/Build_your_linking_skills" title="User:Tony1/Build your linking skills">User:Tony1/Build your linking skills</a>, a tutorial on high-quality linking with practice questions</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Notes_and_references" data-mw-thread-id="h-Notes_and_references"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Notes_and_references"></span>Notes and references<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Notes_and_references"></span></h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Note that this wikitext isn't as pretty as the manual method, which would yield <code>[[Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 41#%7B%7BCite book%7D%7D and %7Ccontribution problems]]</code>. This is because the encoder converts characters like space, :, and # which are legal in wikilinks and don't need to be converted.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> 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 <i>insource</i> parameter.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> "What Links Here" does not report URL-style links to a page.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Redirects that link to a section are part of a valiant effort to enable changing a section heading without breaking a link to the <i>name</i>. 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.) </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> If you will use the API heavily or professionally you should follow its currently listed recommendations at <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query" class="extiw" title="mw:API:Query">API</a>. 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Ask a question here and Wikipedia volunteers will try to answer it.">(?)</abbr></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Noticeboards" title="Wikipedia:Noticeboards">Noticeboards</a></b> <b><abbr title="Pages where editors can ask questions and request assistance from people who are familiar with the policies and guidelines covered by each individual board.">(?)</abbr></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet" title="Help:Cheatsheet">Cheatsheet</a></b> <b><abbr title="For a list of the most commonly used Wiki markup and templates.">(?)</abbr></b></li> <li><b> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Directories_and_indexes" title="Wikipedia:Directories and indexes">Directories</a></b> <b><abbr title="For a list of Wikipedia's directories and indexes.">(?)</abbr></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About" title="Wikipedia:About">About Wikipedia</a> <abbr title="Wikipedia's governess and customs">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administration" title="Wikipedia:Administration">Administration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose" title="Wikipedia:Purpose">Purpose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars" title="Wikipedia:Five pillars">Principles</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Policies and guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">What Wikipedia is not</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer" title="Wikipedia:General disclaimer">Disclaimer</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_for_parents" title="Wikipedia:Advice for parents">parental advice</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_directory" title="Wikipedia:Request directory">Making requests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Who_writes_Wikipedia%3F" title="Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia?">Who writes Wikipedia?</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reader%27s_index_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Reader's index to Wikipedia">Help for readers</a> <abbr title="Concerns and questions readers may have about Wikipedia">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_book_creator_status" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia book creator status">Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Copyright" title="Help:Copyright">Copyright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Glossary" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Glossary">Glossary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Mobile_access" title="Help:Mobile access">Mobile access</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Navigation" title="Help:Navigation">Navigation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Other_languages" title="Help:Other languages">Other languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Searching" title="Help:Searching">Searching</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Student_help" title="Help:Student help">Students</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Viewing_media" title="Help:Viewing media">Viewing media</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia">Contributing<br/>to Wikipedia</a> <abbr title="Overviews and resources needed to comprehend, comment on, and edit">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guidance_for_younger_editors" title="Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors">Advice for young editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoiding_common_mistakes" title="Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes">Avoiding common mistakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette" title="Wikipedia:Etiquette">Etiquette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplified_Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style">Simplified Manual of Style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplified_ruleset" title="Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset">Simplified rule-set</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all rules">"Ignore all rules"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_rules_are_principles" title="Wikipedia:The rules are principles">"The rules are principles"</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Styletips" title="Wikipedia:Styletips">Style-tips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tip_of_the_day" title="Wikipedia:Tip of the day">Tip of the day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Your_first_article" title="Help:Your first article">Your first article</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard" title="Wikipedia:Article wizard">article wizard</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Help:Getting_started" title="Help:Getting started">Getting started</a> <abbr title="Introductions and tutorials">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F" title="Wikipedia:Why create an account?">Why create an account?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" title="Help:Introduction">Introductions by topic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_tutorials" title="Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials">Graphics tutorials</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Pictures" title="Help:Pictures">Picture tutorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial" title="Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial">IRC <span style="font-size:85%;">(live chat)</span> tutorial</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User_guide" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide">VisualEditor user guide</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts">Dos and don'ts</a> <abbr title="Wikipedia policies, guidelines, and formatting standards in bullet points">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accessibility_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Accessibility dos and don'ts">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Biography_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Biography dos and don'ts">Biographies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons dos and don'ts">Biographies (living)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Categorization dos and don'ts">Categorization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Consensus dos and don'ts">Consensus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Talk dos and don'ts">Discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation dos and don'ts">Disambiguation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Image dos and don'ts">Images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lead_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Lead dos and don'ts">Leads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Linking_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Linking dos and don'ts">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:List dos and don'ts">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:References_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:References dos and don'ts">References</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Table_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Table dos and don'ts">Tables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_title_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Article title dos and don'ts">Titles (of articles)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_how-to" title="Category:Wikipedia how-to">How-to pages</a> and<br/><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_information_pages" title="Category:Wikipedia information pages">information pages</a> <abbr title="Topic specific informative and instructional pages">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_appealing_blocks" title="Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks">Appealing blocks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Article deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Citations_quick_reference" title="Help:Citations quick reference">Citations/references</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">Referencing for beginners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Citation_Style_1" title="Help:Citation Style 1">Citation Style 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Cite_errors" title="Help:Cite errors">Cite errors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:References_and_page_numbers" title="Help:References and page numbers">References and page numbers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Convert" title="Help:Convert">Convert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">Diff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">Editing</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Minor_edit" title="Help:Minor edit">Minor edit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_toolbar" title="Help:Edit toolbar">toolbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict" title="Help:Edit conflict">edit conflict</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Find_sources" title="Help:Find sources">Find sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Files" title="Help:Files">Files</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Footnotes" title="Help:Footnotes">Footnotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_image_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion">Image deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Infobox" title="Help:Infobox">Infoboxes</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Linking</a> (<a href="/wiki/Help:Link_color" title="Help:Link color">link color</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Logging_in" title="Help:Logging in">Logging 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title="Help:Special characters">Characters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Columns" title="Help:Columns">Columns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Elevation" title="Help:Elevation">Elevation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Hidden_text" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Hidden text">Hidden text</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext" title="Help:HTML in wikitext">HTML</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:List" title="Help:List">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words" title="Help:Magic words">Magic words</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Musical_symbols" title="Help:Musical symbols">Music symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Section" title="Help:Section">Sections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Sound_file_markup" title="Help:Sound file markup">Sounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Table" title="Help:Table">Tables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">Templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion" 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor%27s_index_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia">Editor's index</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Essays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Index" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Index">FAQs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary" title="Wikipedia:Glossary">Glossary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:List of guidelines">Guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Contents" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Contents">Manual of Style </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies" title="Wikipedia:List of policies">Policies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Maintenance" title="Wikipedia:Maintenance">Tasks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tips" title="Wikipedia:Tips">Tips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools" title="Wikipedia:Tools">Tools</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><div><b> <a href="/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual">Missing Manual</a></b> <hr/> <span class="noprint plainlinks" title="Edit Special:MyTalk"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MyTalk&action=edit&section=new&preload=Help:Contents/helpmepreload&preloadtitle=Help+me%21"><b>Ask for help on your talk page</b></a></span> <b><abbr title="If you need help, you can use this link to ask a question on your talk page; a volunteer will visit you there shortly!">(?)</abbr></b></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Wikipedia_technical_help" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_technical_help" title="Template:Wikipedia technical help"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Wikipedia_technical_help" title="Template talk:Wikipedia technical help"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia_technical_help" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia technical help"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Wikipedia_technical_help" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Help:Directory#Technical_help" title="Help:Directory">Wikipedia technical help</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Get personal technical help at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse" title="Wikipedia:Teahouse">the Teahouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk" title="Wikipedia:Help desk">help desk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)">village pump (technical)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_talk_pages/1" title="Help:Introduction to talk pages/1">talk pages</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC" title="Wikipedia:IRC">IRC</a>.</b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical">General<br/>technical help</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Browser_notes" title="Wikipedia:Browser notes">Browser notes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache" title="Wikipedia:Bypass your cache">Bypass cache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Keyboard_shortcuts" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts">Keyboard shortcuts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">Editing</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:CharInsert" title="Help:CharInsert">CharInsert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict" title="Help:Edit conflict">Edit conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_toolbar" title="Help:Edit toolbar">Edit toolbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Reverting" title="Help:Reverting">Reverting</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_a_page" title="Wikipedia:How to create a page">How to create a page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC" title="Wikipedia:IRC">IRC</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial" title="Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial">Tutorial</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Mobile_access" title="Help:Mobile access">Mobile access</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support" title="Help:Multilingual support">Multilingual support</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_history" title="Help:Page history">Page history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_information" title="Help:Page information">Page information</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_name" title="Wikipedia:Page name">Page name</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Page_name" title="Help:Page name">Help</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Printing" title="Help:Printing">Printing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Software_notices" title="Wikipedia:Software notices">Software notices</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editnotice" title="Wikipedia:Editnotice">Editnotice</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Special_characters" title="Help:Special characters">Special Characters</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Entering_special_characters" title="Help:Entering special characters">Entering</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">User access levels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor" title="Wikipedia:VisualEditor">VisualEditor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:VisualEditor" title="Help:VisualEditor">Help</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="Special:SpecialPages">Special<br/>page</a>-related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Special_page" title="Help:Special page">Special page help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:AllPages" title="Help:AllPages">AllPages</a></li> 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title="Help:Notifications/FAQ">FAQ</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Help" title="Wikipedia:Page Curation/Help">Page Curation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Import" title="Help:Import">Page import</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes" title="Wikipedia:Pending changes">Pending changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Random" title="Wikipedia:Random">Random pages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Recent_changes" title="Help:Recent changes">Recent changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Related_changes" title="Help:Related changes">Related changes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Searching" title="Help:Searching">Searching</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Linksearch" title="Help:Linksearch">Linksearch</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tags" title="Wikipedia:Tags">Tags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:User_contributions" title="Help:User contributions">User contributions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Watchlist" title="Help:Watchlist">Watchlist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:What_links_here" title="Help:What links here">What links here</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext" title="Help:Wikitext">Wikitext</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext" title="Help:Wikitext">Wikitext</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet" title="Help:Cheatsheet">Cheatsheet</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Columns" title="Help:Columns">Columns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Line-break_handling" title="Help:Line-break handling">Line-break handling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:List" title="Help:List">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words" title="Help:Magic words">Magic words</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words_for_beginners" title="Help:Magic words for 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class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Collapsing">Collapsing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Conditional_tables" title="Help:Conditional tables">Conditional tables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Sortable_tables" title="Help:Sortable tables">Sortable tables</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Using_colours" title="Help:Using colours">Using colours</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Links</a> and <a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">diffs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Links</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links" title="Help:Interlanguage links">Interlanguage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">Interwiki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Permanent_link" title="Help:Permanent link">Permanent</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">Diffs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplest_diff_guide" title="Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide">Simplest diff guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_diff_and_link_guide" title="Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide">Simple diff and link guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Complete_diff_and_link_guide" title="Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide">Complete diff and link guide</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Colon_trick" title="Help:Colon trick">Colon trick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Link_color" title="Help:Link color">Link color</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick" title="Help:Pipe trick">Pipe trick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:URL" title="Help:URL">URLs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Media" class="mw-disambig" title="Wikipedia:Media">Media</a> files: 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title="Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources">Graphics Lab resources</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Sound_file_markup" title="Help:Sound file markup">Sound file markup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Visual_file_markup" title="Help:Visual file markup">Visual file markup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Other graphics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Family_trees" title="Help:Family trees">Family trees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphs_and_charts" title="Wikipedia:Graphs and charts">Graphs and charts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_charts_for_Wikipedia_articles" title="Wikipedia:How to create charts for Wikipedia articles">How to create</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Barchart" title="Help:Barchart">Barcharts</a></li> <li><a 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