Link is one of the most basic elements used on wikis. It links text to another page, website or resource.

How to create a link is detailed on the visual editor main documentation . The following documentation details how to create all types of links.

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

Internal link [ edit ]

This hyperlink is the most basic type of link. It links to another page on the same wiki.

You can insert this link by?:

• pasting page's name inside double square brackets in the editor: [[MediaWiki]] .
• typing two opening square brackets
• press "Link" option in the menu
• hit ctrl + K

For the last 3 cases, a small window will pop up in which you can search for the page you want to create a link to.

For advanced usage, read Help:Links .

External link [ edit ]

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: https://wikipedia.org .
• For more options, see Help:Links

Interwiki link [ edit ]

Sometimes also called interproject link , it is similar to an internal link, but leads to another wiki, for example from MediaWiki to Meta Wikimedia.

To create such a link, insert syntax of the internal link in the Link popup, but prefixed with the interwiki: wikinews:Soyuz rocket launches GIOVE-B satellite .

List of interwiki prefixes can be found here .

Interlanguage link [ edit ]

This is a link that leads to a page in the current wiki (or to another wiki), but in a different language.

To create an interlanguage link from any project in a certain language to the same project in another language, type language code, followed by colon, followed by the pagename in Link popup: pl:Saturn .

Interlanguage and interwiki link combined [ edit ]

If you want to link to any interwiki page to another project in other language, type at the beginning of the link:

1. the interwiki prefix?followed?by a colon
2. the language prefix?followed?by a colon
3. the page title

Example: wikipedia:pl:Saturn .

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

Category link [ edit ]

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

Wikitext users may notice that the colon required by wikitext is not required on the visual editor. The visual editor automatically adds the colon to the wikitext.

File link [ edit ]

To create a link to a certain file, type the full file name (including the File: prefix and the extension) as follows: File:Wiki.png .

Wikitext users may notice that the colon required by wikitext is not required on the visual editor. The visual editor automatically adds the colon to the wikitext.

• advanced usage of following links