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[edit] 2008

[edit] Linking to Category pages

How do I link to category or special pages? for example

[[Category:Consonant_Assimilation]]

Obviously is a different syntax.I want to link to that page.

211.47.123.21 - 07:40, 11 October 2008

There is an example of that on the Help:Links page here. Just add a colon: [[:Category:Consonant_Assimilation]]. Same trick for linking to image pages -- Harry Wood 18:44, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I did't catch that! Thanks a lot 211.47.123.21

[edit] Anchors, Internet Explorer 8.0 and w3c

I am not sure about this anchor links to jump to a section on the same site. It not work on mediawiki sites. But it work on w3c sites like http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/about.html, therefore what's the problem? --Lastwebpage 09:14, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How to make mailto link do First Last <foo@bar.com>

I have not figured out how to get MediaWiki to let me do this. I tried

<foo@bar.com> 
<foo@bar.com>%20First%20Last 
<foo@bar.com>
<foo@bar.com> First%20Last
First%20Last
First Last
<foo@bar.com>%20First%20Last First Last
<foo@bar.com> First Last

None of these works.

This workaround is as close as I could come:

First Last

Dave Yost 21:26, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

In this case [mailto:foo@bar.com First Last <foo@bar.com>] works and is displayed (as you wish) as First Last <foo@bar.com>. The structure is generally the same as for normal external links: [link linkttitle]. --:bdk: 23:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I think perhaps what Dave is after is for the mailto: to actually pass the recipient name to the mail program as well as the address. A standard html mailto: link (<a href="mailto:An Example <example@example.com>">) does do this in various clients, but is not actually compliant with [RFC1738]. Mediawiki insists on using the space to separate the link destination and link text (Example <example@example.com> - hover to see "mailto:An") - which is actually "correct" behaviour. Jmb 14:29, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] How to link with a local file?

Hi there, does anyone know, how to link with a file on a local volume? e. g. [c:\User\Martin\Alice.xls] or [file:///c:\User\Martin\Alice.xls] doesn't work. Thank you -Rob.

To allow links to local files (which may make sense in an intranet context), put this into your LocalSettings.php:
$wgUrlProtocols[] = "file:";


[edit] Spaces in PAGENAME

Use the URL-encoded variant (PAGENAMEE). —Emufarmers(T|C) 20:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
thanks a lot. TechControl 15:06, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mailto: Spaces in Outlook Short Names

[mailto:Doe, John (EKDD/1) ]doesn't work, only the string Doe is transfered into the Outlook to:

Expml: John (EKDD/1)

What shall I do, to make it work? --User: EnterpriseWiki

Answer: John Doe [mailto:Doe,John%20(EKDD/1) John Doe]

Someone jnows a less cryptic version? --User: EnterpriseWiki

[edit] more problem with mailto - using 'subject' field

Is there a way to include subject fields and other options in a mailto link in mediawiki? The HTML syntax for mailto links would be <a href="mailto:foo@bar?subject=a subject>text</a>, but this obviously fails because any space in the subject field would be interpreted as the separator... and standard html doesn't work at all. Is there any workaround for this, or some feature of the software that I have overlooked? --89.207.208.9 11:02, 12 December 2008 (UTC) Carelesshx 11:03, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

You must use "%20" instead of " " (space). Example: [mailto:foo@bar?subject=a%20subject] is displayed as [1]. I also had problems with special characters (Latin), so I had to use the hexadecimal values of ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin 1) character encoding preceded by "%". I don't know if the characters are displayed correctly for everyone, but it worked for me. Example: [mailto:foo@bar?subject=informa%E7%F5es&body=test] is displayed as [2] -- 201.76.26.103 23:53, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 2009

[edit] Auto linking

Is there a good way to designate words or phrases that should automatically link to certain pages? For example if I have an auto-repair wiki and I want every occurence of the phrase "distributor cap" on any page to link to the "Distributor" page, is there a way to do this without manually assigning the link each time? --IP 13 January 2009

You can try this [3]

[edit] Internal Links in a new window

Does anyone know of a way (new syntax perhaps?) that allows for internal links to open up in another window? I prefer not to modify code that affects all internal links, only those that we want. Is this even possible? I know in html you can use target="_new" or "_blank" to <a> tags. Would love a Wikitext equivalent. Soonshort 09:57, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Custom link title?

The default wikilink title is the target page title (this is undocumented). How do I specify a custom title that better matches the context? Example: at w:Bohm interpretation there is a wikilink to w:Copenhagen interpretation and the title is "Copenhagen interpretation". It would be much more informative to make the title "the state of every particle is described by a wavefunction". --Yecril 08:07, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Which link? Anyway, you can have that result with [[Copenhagen interpretation|the state of every particle is described by a wavefunction]]. --Nemo bis 18:05, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Link to "Special:Allpages" with the namespace parm set

We are using Mediawiki 1.8.2. It's easy to determine an external link like [[http://etc]] that points to "all pages" with the namespace parameter set - i.e. to a dynamic list of all existing user pages or all categories in a given Wiki. Does this work in Wiki syntax too? How? Thanks. Burkhard 29 Oct 2009

Something like Special:Allpages/Category:? --Nemo bis 18:09, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes that's it. Thanks a lot. Burkhard 20 Oct 2009
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