Help talk:Links

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

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

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)

How to make mailto link do First Last 
I have not figured out how to get MediaWiki to let me do this. I tried [mailto:First%20Last%20] [mailto:%20First%20Last] [mailto:First%20Last ] [mailto: First%20Last] [mailto:foo@bar.com First%20Last] [mailto:foo@bar.com%20First%20Last First Last] [mailto:%20First%20Last First Last] [mailto:First%20Last%20 First Last] None of these works.

This workaround is as close as I could come: [mailto:(First%20Last)%20foo@bar.com First Last]

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


 * In this case  works and is displayed (as you wish) as [mailto:foo@bar.com First Last ]. The structure is generally the same as for normal external links:  . -- :bdk:  23:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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   doesn't work. Thank you -Rob.

Spaces in PAGENAME

 * http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Links&diff=218021&oldid=218020 how to solve? TechControl 15:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


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

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 text, 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] </tt> is displayed as [mailto:foo@bar?subject=a%20subject]. 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] </tt> is displayed as [mailto:foo@bar?subject=informa%E7%F5es&body=test] -- 201.76.26.103 23:53, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

=2009=

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