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Shortcut for <nowiki>[[Help:Links/example]]</nowiki>. See also [[Help:Subpages]].

To add an external link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in single square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page, with an arrow icon after it to show that it was coded with single bracket external link syntax, and thus may lead to another site. {| border="1" class="wikitable"

|<prett><nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</prenowiki></tt>

|<prett><nowiki>[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]</prenowiki></tt>

|External Numbered external link numbered|<prett><nowiki>[http://mediawiki.org]</prenowiki></tt>

|External link links with file icons|<prett><nowiki>

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.wav ogg sound]

</prenowiki></tt><small>See [[#External link icons may differ depending on the file type of the target]] for currently supported icons and extensions.</small>

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.avi video]<br/>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.wav ogg sound]<br/>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pdf document]<br/>

|<prett><nowiki>[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]</prenowiki></tt>|[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]

|<prett><nowiki>[http://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}]</prenowiki></tt>|[http://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}]

|<prett><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org email me]</prenowiki></tt>

|<prett><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&amp;body=Body%20Text info]</prenowiki></tt>

{{admin tip|tip=Which protocols (like http:) are allowed for = External links is controlled by the {{mediawiki|Manual:$wgUrlProtocols|$wgUrlProtocols}}<!--Should these admin tips even be here? This is supposed to be end user help is it not? --> setting. }}{{admin tip|tipinternal pages ==To remove the “external link icons“ from next to each of the external links, add the following to the page located at <code>MediaWiki:Monobook.css</code> on your wiki.

<source langTo add an external link to a page on the same wiki using parameters, you may need to use external link syntax. Enclose the name of the page you want to link to in single square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page, with an arrow icon after it. This is often useful if you want to link internally on a wiki, but need query parameters in the URL, which may not work with normal internal links in some circumstances. {| border="css1"class="wikitable"!Description!You type!You get|-|External link to the current page's edit page|<pre>[http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Links&action=edit Edit]</pre>|[http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Links&action=edit Edit]|-|External link to the current page's edit page using the [[Help:Magic_words#bodyContent aURL_data | fullurl parser function]]|<pre>[{{fullurl:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} Edit]</pre>See also [[Help:Magic_words#URL_data]] and [[#External links]]|[{{fullurl:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} Edit]|-|External link to the current page's edit page, and styled to look like an internal link|<pre><span class="plainlinks">[http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Links&action=edit Edit]</span></pre>The [[Plainlinks | plainlinks class]] can be used in cases where you want an externallink to look like an internal one,by suppressing the icon that normally appears after it. #bodyContent a|<span class="plainlinks">[href ^http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Links&action=edit Edit]</span>|} == External link icons =={| class="wikitable"! Test link !! Icon !! Trigger|-| [http://.] || [http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.png external-link-ltr-icon.png] || <code>.external</code>, <code>http://</code>, <code>gopher://"</code>|-| [https://.] {|| [http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/vector/images/lock-icon.png lock-icon.png] || <code>https://</code> background|-| [mailto: none;.] || [http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/vector/images/mail-icon.png mail-icon.png] || <code>mailto:</code> padding|-right| [news: 0;//.] || [http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/vector/images/news-icon.png news-icon.png] || <code>news<nowiki/>://</code>}|-| [ftp://.] || [http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/vector/images/file-icon.png file-icon.png] || <code>ftp:/source/</code>}|-| [irc://.] || [http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/vector/images/talk-icon.png talk-icon.png] || <code>irc://</code>|-| [http://.ogg] || [http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/vector/images/audio-icon.png audio-icon.png] || <code>.ogg</code>, <code>.mid</code>, <code>.midi</code>, <code>.mp3</code>, <code>.wav</code>, <code>.wma</code>|-| [http://.ogm] || [http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/vector/images/video-icon.png video-icon.png] || <code>.ogm</code>, <code>.avi</code>, <code>.mpeg</code>, <code>.mpg</code>|-| [http://.pdf] || [http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/vector/images/document-icon.png document-icon.png] || <code>.pdf</code>, <code>.pdf#</code>, <code>.pdf?</code>|}

Interwiki links are links with the internal link markup to a website registered in advance. For example, you can link to the Sunflower article on http://en.wikipedia.org by typing <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:Sunflower]]</nowiki></code>, which will result in a link [[wikipedia:Sunflower]]. This is because <code><nowiki>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</nowiki></code> is registered to your wiki by default with the prefix of <code>wikipedia</code>. ''This link may not work properly, 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.

Basically this is an abbreviation for longer URLs. A very similar link could be created as a normal external link by typing <code><nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower Sunflowerbig yellow flower]</nowiki></code>, but interwiki links allow you to type out an easy and compact link, almost as if you are linking to a page on your own wiki.

More details are at {{admin tipmediawiki|tip=See Manual:Interwiki}}. To edit the {{mediawiki|Manual:Interwikitable|interwiki table}} for the management of interwiki links of on your wiki.site, see the {{mediawiki|Extension:InterWiki|InterWiki extension}}.

Interlanguage links behave similar similarly to interwiki links, except that they are listed in the sidebar. To create an interlanguage link from a page, just type <code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>''language prefix'':pagename]]</code> wherever you like in the page; the language prefix is the prefix specified at your wiki for the other language version (typically the [[wikipedia:ISO 639|ISO language code]]).

If you want to make the interlanguage link to appear in the content of the page, you can add a colon before the language prefix, e. g. ::<code><nowiki>[[:en:Sunflower]]</nowiki></code>&rarr; '''[[:en:Sunflower]]''' When link is both interwiki and interlanguage, the order is '''[[wikipedia:en:Sunflower]]'''.

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