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The WikiMarkup linking crash-course. Even I learned something while writing this up for you guys. MyraMidnight (talk)

Internal Links[edit]

In wikipedia and other wikis, free links are used in wikitext markup to produce internal links between pages
In Wikipedia's markup language, you create free links by putting double square brackets around text designating the title of the page you want to link to. Thus, [[Krafties]] will be rendered as Krafties. Optionally, you can use a vertical bar (|) to customize the link title. For example, typing [[Krafties|Cute Creatures]] will produce Cute Creatures, a link that is displayed as "Cute Creatures" but in fact links to Krafties.
Some Examples of FreeLinking
Description You write What it looks like
Plain Link [[Krafties]] Krafties
Rewritten Link [[Krafties|Cute Creatures]] Cute Creatures
Rewritten Link with partial italics [[Souls|Pure ''elemental'' power]] Pure elemental power
Category turned into a link and renamed [[:Category:Krafties|Krafties Game]] Krafties Game
Blending links [[Rez]]zing Rezzing
Linking to a section of a page and renaming it [[Combat#Player versus Player (PvP)|PvP Battling]] PvP Battling
Linking to a section WITHIN the same page and renaming it [[#External Links|The next Chapter]] The next Chapter
Automatic rewriting of Free Links
Description You write What it looks like
Automatically hide stuff in parentheses [[Fire (element)|]] Fire
Automatically hide namespace [[Template:MainPage News|]] MainPage News
Or both [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings)|]] Manual of Style
  • You can create a link to a page that doesn't exist yet, which is just fine. It will remind us that that page needs to be created at some point. It will appear in the special pages under "wanted pages"
  • And yes, you can actually link to the official Wikipedia by slapping on the Wikipedia: namespace on the link (used in the example above).

External Links[edit]

It is quite easy to create links that lead outside of our wiki, using wiki markup.

  • Just write the name of the link behind the url
External links
You write What it looks like
[http://krafties.com/ Krafties] Krafties