Help:VisualEditor/User guide/Links

"In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow either by clicking, tapping, or hovering. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document."Link is one of the most basic elements to be used on wikis. It links text to other page, website or resource.

Link types
There are few types of link available to use on MediaWiki.

Internal link
This hyperlink is the most basic type of link. It links to other page on the same wiki. You can insert this link by placing page's name inside double square brackets in text editor:. If you type two first characters (two opening square brackets) in VisualEditor, a small window will pop up in which you can search for the page you want to create a link to. You can also press "Link" option in the menu or hit  also in VisualEditor.

For advanced usage, read Help:Links.

External link
External links link to the outside of the wiki. To create this type of link, you have few options:
 * In the Link popup open External link tab, then type the URL for the link. You can add a label for this link by clicking on that link again, clicking Edit, and Add label.
 * Specify URL just inside the content of the page:.
 * Many other options, Help:Links

Interwiki link
Sometimes also called interproject link, it's a link similar to the internal one, but leads to other wiki, for example from MediaWiki to Meta Wikimedia.

To create such a link, insert syntax similar to the internal's one in the Link popup, but prefixed with the interwiki:.

List of interwiki prefixes can be found [phab:source/mediawiki/browse/master/maintenance/interwiki.list]here.

Interlanguage link
This is a link that leads to page inside the current wiki (or other interwiki) but in other language.

To create an interlanguage link, type language code followed by colon followed by page's name in Link popup:.

If you want to link to any interwiki page in other language, at the beggining of the link type interwiki prefix followed by colon:.

Resource link types
There are few types of links that lead to specific resources, not pages nor external entities.

Category link
To create a link to certain category, type the category name prefixed by Category keyword and colon in the Link popup:.

File link
To create a link to certain file, type the category name prefixed by File keyword and colon in the Link popup (just like in the category link):.

Read more
To read more about advanced usage of following links, click here.