Help:Links/sco

Thaur's five types o links in MediaWiki:


 * 1) Internal links til ither pages in the wiki
 * 2) Ootby links til ither wabsteids
 * 3) Ootby links til internal pages in the wiki
 * 4) Interwiki links til ither wabsteids registert til the wiki in advance
 * 5) Interleid links til ither wabsteids registert aes ither leid versions o the wiki
 * 1) External links to pages at other websites
 * 1) External links to internal pages in the same wiki
 * 1) Interwiki links to other websites using special prefixes registered in advance
 * 1) Interlanguage links to other wikis registered as different language versions of the current wiki

Please note that this list does not include category links and file links, which are used to place pages into categories and display images or other media files, respectively.

Internal links
To create a so-called internal link to a page on the same wiki (a "wikilink"), use double square brackets wiki markup,. When you preview or save your changes, you will see a link that can be followed to the target page. If the page exists the link is displayed in blue (like the word "create" in the first sentence of this paragraph); if the page does not exist, the link appears red (so the  link is actually rendered like this). Note that the colors could be different if the color scheme of the wiki has been changed from the default. Following such a "redlink" to a missing page (whether or not it is actually red) will usually enable the user to create the page.

To markup any arbitrary string of text (not necessarily a page title) as a link, use a "vertical bar" or "pipe" character, like this:  results in the link category links.

The first letter o the tairget page is autæmateeclie capitalised, onless itherwise set bi the admeens, n spaces ar represented aes unnerscores (typin aen unnerscore in the link will hae ae siclike effect aes typin ae space, bit isna recommendit, aes the unnerscore will be shawn in the tex ava).

If the page title you are linking to is that of the page you are editing, the result is not a hyperlink at all but simply bold text (for example, on this page the markup  gives the result ). If you're trying to create a wikilink to the current page, you probably want to link to a specific section or to an anchor within the page; see the examples below.

MediaWiki uses the table to keep track of internal wikilinks.



Ootby links
Tae add aen external link, enclaise the URL follaed bi space n the name o the page that ye want tae link til in single square brackets. Whan ye hain the page, ye'll see the new link pointin til yer page, wi ae triangle icon efter it tae shaw that it wis coded wi single bracket external link syntax, n thus micht lead til anither steid.



Ootby links til internal pages
Tae add ae link til ae page oan the same wiki uisin URL speirin boonds, ye micht need tae uise ootby link syntax.

Limitations

 * 1) External links doesn't support Word-ending links.
 * 2) External links doesn't count toward Special:WhatLinksHere (What links here).

Interwiki links
Interwiki links ar links wi the internal link maurkup til ae wabsteid registerit in advance. Fer example, ye can link til the Sunflower airticle oan http://en.wikipedia.org bi typin, this will ootcome in ae link Sunflower. This is cause  is registerit til yer wiki bi defaut wi the prefix o. (This link micht na wairk richt gif the admeen o yer wiki haes chynged the settin.) Onlike internal links, interwiki links dinna uise page exeestance detection, sae aen interwiki link will kith aes blue even gif the page disna exeest oan the remote wiki. For example, you can link to the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower by typing  or, on this wiki, the shorter. Both will result in a link Sunflower. This works because by default MediaWiki configures  as an "interwiki prefix" that turns into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ when used inside. (It may not work if the admin of your wiki has changed the setting.) Unlike internal links, interwiki links do not use page existence detection, so an interwiki link will appear blue even if the page does not exist on the remote wiki.

Siclike til internal page links, ye can cræft piped links, wi alternate link label, e.g.  is the link muckle yellae flouer n   is the link Sunflower.

Basiclie, interwiki links ar abbreeveeations fer commynlie uised langer external links. Ae fair siclike link coud be cræftit aes.

Mair details ar at n Help:Interwiki linkin. See the defaut interwiki prefixes. Tae eedit the buird oan yer steid.



Interleid links
If your wiki has other language versions, you may find interlanguage links in the sidebar, just below toolbox in a section titled “.”

In wiki markup an interlanguage link looks very much like an interwiki link, but behaves similarly to a category link in that it is rendered in a special way. While category links appear in a special list at the bottom of the page (usually), interlanguage links appear in a special list in the sidebar of the page (or elsewhere, depending on the wiki's configuration and the skin used).

The purpose of interlanguage links is to link pages on the same topics in different languages. To create an interlanguage link, type anywhere in the page (preferably at the bottom, like category links); the language prefix is the prefix specified at your wiki for the other language version (typically the ISO 639-1 language code). The interlanguage link is unilateral, it does not point back from that page in the other language. For that purpose, an equivalent back-link needs to be placed there as well. It does not work like the "Edit links" in the languages section of Wikipedia-language versions. But it can be used across all name spaces, including 'User:' to point to ones other profiles in other languages.

Gif ye want tae get the interleid link tae kith in the content o the page raither than in the sidebaur, ye can add ae colon afore the leid prefix:
 * &rarr; en:Sunflower

Whan ae link is baith interwiki n interleid, the order is Sunflower.

For more information, see m:Help:Interwiki linking#Interlanguage links.

Limits
An internal wiki link is limited by maximum page title size.

Linking everything or nearly everything
Special:WhatLinksHere (What links here) shows every link users add. This includes the so-called see also sections that link to the topic, even if the topic was not explained in any detail on the page or template where the link was added.

This includes so-called navigation templates. The message about this was ignored by the developers for several years.

