Links are foundational to a wiki. They let your readers click from one page to another — and thus explore your content easily. It's such a central part of wikis that the process of creating links is also known as wikification.
Make sure that all your pages have links to other pages on your wiki.
Using Fandom's visual editors
This is the pop-up that will appear when you click the link button in Fandom's classic rich-text editor.
In the VisualEditor, the process is similar, but there's only one field — for the target page.
To create a link, you must be in edit mode.
- Begin by highlighting the text you want to link.
- Then click on the
button on the toolbar. (If you don't see this button, there are other options. See below.) - A window will pop up that gives you two options for linking: an internal link or an external link. Internal links are pages within the wiki (or to another wiki). External links are to pages outside of Fandom. Select which one you need.
- Enter the target of the link. For an internal link, enter the name of the page (see Types of internal links below for more detail). For an external link, enter the full URL (including the "https://" part).
- Make sure the text that should display for the link looks correct (it should be displaying the text you highlighted earlier).
- Click "OK". Your link will appear!
Using source mode
Source editing differs significantly from the approach offered by Fandom's visual editors. However, it also allows you the ability to link in many more sophisticated ways via wikitext. There are so many interesting details about linking in source that we've created a whole page about it!
Important notes
- Until you're confident making links, don't forget to preview your changes before you save.
- On most wikis, if your new link is red in the preview, either that destination does not exist or you typed it incorrectly. If you click on the red link, you will be asked to create the page.
- Adding a link that goes to the current page appears as bold text instead of a link when viewing the page.
See also
- Help:Interwiki link for more advanced linking details
- Help:Interlanguage link for an important, specialised type of link
- Help:Links/Wikitext for a source-only approach to linking
Further help and feedback
- Browse and search other help pages at Help:Contents
- Check Fandom Community Central for sources of further help and support
- Check Contacting Fandom for how to report any errors or unclear steps in this article