Help:Links
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Links are the jam in Religion-wiki's sandwich. You can add links to any web page to a page that you edit. Please do not add links that other user will find inappropriate.
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Links using URLs
Just type it
The simplest way to create a link is by adding the URL of the page you want to link to. Typing
http://religion.wikicities.com/
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Notice the little symbol at the end of the link that marks it as such.
Compact links
Sometimes you might not want to display the entire URL of a page. You collapse the entire link down into a reference note. To do this, type the URL in square brackets. Typing
[http://religion.wikicities.com/]
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Link text
Often it is easier to place some descriptive text as the link rather than displaying the URL. Again, type the URL in square brackets. At the end of the URL, but before the closing bracket, type a single space and enter the text you would like to display as the link. Typing
[http://religion.wikicities.com/ Visit the Religion-wiki website]
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Wikilinks
Remembering and typing out the URL of a page can be a bit cumbersome, so there is handier way of may links from one wiki page to another: the wikilink.
Links within Religion-wiki
Within Religion-wiki link to another page by typing double square brackets around the page name. Typing
[[Main Page]]
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Note that an underscore is not needed. You could type Main_Page, but we don't think it looks as nice as Main Page.
If the page is not in the main article namespace, remember to include the namespace in the link. Typing
[[Help:Contents]]
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If your link is to the same page on which it is written, it will appear as bold text rather than a link. Typing
[[Help:Links]]
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Piped links
You can use a descriptive link text instead of the page's name by adding that text after the pipe symbol. Typing
[[Main Page|Religion-wiki's main page]]
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Religion-wiki has a rather nifty way of making life easy for you. If you just want to remove the namespace prefix from a link's text, typing
[[Help:Contents|]]
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Religion-wiki automatically drops the prefix from the text.
Wikilinks to category pages
A wikilink to a category page is normally added to the foot of the page, in the Categories bar. If you want to add a link to a category in the text of a page, typing
[[:Category:Buddhism]]
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and doesn't place the link at the bottom of the page. Of course you could type
[[:Category:Buddhism|]]
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Wikilink directly to a section of a page
You can link directly to a specific section of a page by including the name of that section after the hash sign (#) after the page name. Typing
[[Religion calendar#September]]
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and links directly to that section.
Wikilinks to other Wikia
You can link to any page in another Wikicity by adding that city's prefix at the beginning of the wikilink. For example, the WikiPagan pages use the prefix Pagan:. Typing
[[Pagan:Main Page]]
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The prefix for the Central Wikicity is Wikia:. Of course, piped links can still be used here.
Wikilinks to other wikis
You can link to any wiki as long as it has a prefix registered on the interwiki map. Probably the most useful of these interwiki links is the prefix Wikipedia:, which gives you a link to any Wikipedia page. Typing
[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia]]
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This link goes directly to the English-language Wikipedia by default, but you can link to other by placing the two-letter language code as an extra prefix. Typing
[[Wikipedia:sv:Religion]]
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the Swedish Wikipedia's article on religion.
Wikilinks inside out
If you want to add a link to Religion-wiki in another wiki within Wikia, simply use the prefix Religion:. Typing
[[Religion:Main Page]]
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If you want to add the link in a wiki beyond Wikia, you have to use the longer prefix Wikia:C:Religion: before the page name. Typing
[[Wikia:C:Religion:Bible]]
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