Help:Links/Internal Links
To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already it is displayed in blue, if it does not, in red. Selflinks to the current page are not transformed in URLs but displayed in bold. (If you really want to link to the current page, use an anchor (see below), or [[#top|current page]] which always links to the top.)
The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized, unless otherwise set by the admins, and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).
Description | You type | You get |
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Internal link | [[Main Page]] |
Main Page |
Piped link | [[Main Page|different text]] |
different text |
Shortened sort-of-piped link | [[Internationalisation]]s |
Internationalisations |
Redirect | #REDIRECT [[Main Page]] See also Help:Redirects |
→ Main Page |
Internal link to an anchor | [[#See also]] Section headings and the top of the page are automatically anchored. |
#See also |
Internal link to an anchor at another page | [[Help:Formatting#See also]] If two or more anchors have the same name, add a number, example: #See also2 |
Help:Formatting#See also |
Internal link to the current page's talk page | [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|Discussion]] |
Discussion |
Internal link to a subpage | [[/example]] Shortcut for [[Help:Links/example]]. See also Help:Subpages. |
/example |
Internal link to a subpage without the leading slash | [[/example/]] Shortcut for [[Help:Links/example|example]]. |
example |
Internal link to a category page | [[:Category:Help]] See also Help:Categories |
Category:Help |
Direct link to an image, pdf, or other file type (rather than linking to the file page) | [[media:example.jpg]] [[media:example.pdf]] See also Help:Adding Media |
media:example.jpg |
Internal link to the user's user page | [[Special:MyPage]] |
Special:MyPage |