Help:Tutorial 5

1. Welcome 2. Editing 3. Formatting 4. Lists 5. Links 6. Where next?

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

More on internal links
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:


 *  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 quizzes. 


 * 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:


 * 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).


 * 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.'''

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