From Wikiversity
This is a quick tutorial about how to make hypertext links on
Wikiversity webpages.
Terminology
- hypertext link ("link" for short). Here are
some examples of links: Link and
Hyperlink.
- internal link. Here is an example of an
"internal link": Link. Internal
links are links to other Wikiversity pages.
- external link. External links are links to
another website such as the Wikipedia website or in the
wider sense, anywhere on the Internet. You can easily recognize
external links from the little arrow on their right side. Here is
an example of an "external link": Google.com.
Make an
internal link
Try creating a link from this page section to another
Wikiversity page. Example: [[Anicape]] can be used to create a link
to the Wikiversity Main Page. Click on the "edit" link for this
page section. When you see the edit window, practice making a link
below:
Make an
external link
In many cases it is useful to make links from Wikiversity pages
to web pages at other
websites. For example, it can be useful to link to textbooks at the
Wikibooks
website. For example, here is how to make a link to the book for
European History: [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/European_History
European History]. Edit this page section and practice making
external links.
Some link
tricks
- link trick #1: external links that look like internal
links Here are three links to the same page: Main
Page and w:Main_Page and Wikipedia website. To make a link to
Wikipedia look like an internal link use this format: [[w:Main
Page]]. The "w:" prefix means to make a link to Wikipedia and "Main
Page" is an example of a page name at Wikipedia. "[[w:Main Page]]"
is an example of MediaWiki Markup; the special instructions that
are used at Wikiversity to do things like make hypertext links on
pages. Do not fear: there are shortcuts (see below) for making
links so you do not have to remember the MediaWiki Markup details.
Advanced reading: Interwiki
linking.
- link trick #2: the "piped link" In case the
form of an internal link is not correspond with the desired output,
you can use "piped links". Above, the link "Wikipedia website" was made using [[w:Main
Page|Wikipedia website]], where the vertical line is called a
"pipe". The text to the left of the "pipe" is the correct form of
the internal link, but it is not shown. To the right of it is the
text as it is shown on the page.
- link trick #3: shortcut buttons There are
buttons on the Editing toolbar for starting internal and external
links. When you edit a Wikiversity page, if you do not see the
editing toolbar, make sure that "Show edit toolbar" is active in
your editing preferences. When you click on the buttons, the basic
MediaWiki Markup for a link will be added into the edit window then
you just fill in the required page name information. Required
information:
- link title <-- for internal links, add the page name of the
page to be linked to.
- www.example.com <-- for external links, provide the URL of
the page. Note: the difference between Main
Page and w:Main_Page is that in the first link an
optional "link title" was provided:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Main Page].
Exercise
Edit the "Terminology" and "Tricks" sections of the page, above,
and see how the various types of links are created.
Your turn
Edit this section of the page and practice making some
links.
Topic:Southeast_Asian_languages
[[Topic:Southeast_Asian_languages!!]]
Technical
writing
[[Technical writing]]
Mysterium
[[w:Mysterium| Mysterium]]
Discussion
Confused? Edit this section of the page and ask a question.
- Could someone write this all out more simply with examples,
showing me exactly how to create a link?
-
- Did you try the exercises/activities listed above? --JWSchmidt
23:31, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
See also
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