Help:Tutorial 5

Links are a vital part of your pages. They are the main way that people will move around the site.

More on internal links

Links are your path around the wiki

We saw how to make internal links on Page 3 of this tutorial. But you can also change the appearance of internal links:

To use words other than the article title as the text of the link, you can use a pipe character "|"

For example, if you wanted to make a link to "Wikia", but wanted it to say "Main Page" you would write:

[[Wikia|Main Page]]

It would show as:

Main Page

You can also add extra letters directly outside the double square brackets to change the link text. This is useful for plurals.

For example, you would write:

Try one of our [[quiz]]zes.

It would appear as:

Try one of our quizzes.

Linking to other wikia?

There are two ways of linking to other wikia.

If the wikia is in the Help:Interwiki map, then you can link simply by adding the name of the wikia to your link.

[[Creatures:Norn]] will link you to the "Norn" page on the Creatures Wikia, and will look like this: Creatures:Norn

Interwiki links also work to some other wikis such as Wikipedia. See the Help:Interwiki map for the full list.

If the wiki isn't in the interwiki map, then you can still link to it by adding "w:c" to the link.

[[w:c:Photography:Main Page]] will link you to the main page of the Photography Wikia, and will look like this: w:c:Photography:Main Page

You can make that link look tidier by using a pipe again:

[[w:c:Photography:SLR camera|SLR camera]] will still link to the "SLR camera" page, but will look like this: SLR camera

If you are adding the link from outside of the Central Wikia, on one of the individual wikis, then you need to expand the "w" to "wikia".

[[wikia:c:Photography:Main Page]] will link you to the main page of the Photography Wikia, and will look like this: wikia:c:Photography:Main Page (this link will be red here on Central)

Linking to external sites

If you want to link to a site outside of Wikia, just type the full URL for the page you want to link to.

http://www.google.com/

It is often better to have the link text show something more useful than the URL. You can do this with single square brackets.

The alternative text goes after the URL, with a space in between (not a pipe this time).

[http://www.google.com/ Google search engine] will look like this: Google search engine

Find out more

Visit Help:Links for a more in-depth guide.

You have now completed the tutorial, and have all the basic knowledge to edit this wiki. For some ideas on where to go next, see page 6 of this tutorial.