Regarding the grammar, "just like ab does" should be changed to "just as ab does". Also, "looking equal to" should be "appearing like". D021317c 04:28, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
"Unlike the name suggests, the target site need not be a wiki" would be better expressed by "The target site, unlike what the name suggests, need not be a wiki." D021317c 04:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
—Uncle G's 'bot 21:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Yuck, why is the History pasted into the Talk page? Isn't there a history button already, no? The page is 43 Kb long already. Jidanni 19:11, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
The example on the Help:Link page no longer works. Please explain how to do this using the new API. Racepacket (talk) 12:27, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Mention how to make a link that looks like "[1]", but is internal. I.e., [http://b.l.a/] gives what I want, but what if one likes the [1] style, but just wants to link another internal page but have it show up as [1].
Or mention if that is impossible, to stop security confusion, etc. Jidanni 19:08, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
WP:Linking#Principles defines "anchor" (linker) as opposed to "target" (linkee):
Yet Help:Link#Section linking (anchors) uses the term anchor (as linkee) to mean a "target" section (linkee)(in opposite sense to WP:Linking).
The two uses are incompatible and oppose one another. I move we minimize the use of anchor in linking guidelines, as it is confused.
Both uses are logical, but we should simply remove the term except from where it is entrenched. Since it is well established in HTML and wiki software template circles (as evidenced by "Section linking"), we should make wikitext markup descriptions similar to them.
CpiralCpiral 22:22, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Quotation characters ( " ) mess up the format of external URL links. For example, here are three ways to try to link to http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&tbo=1&q="world%20cup"&btnG=Search+Books.
http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&tbo=1&q="world%20cup"&btnG=Search+Books
The problem can be fixed by URI-encoding the quotation character as %22. I think this should be noted on the Help page. Is there bugzilla entry for this? Are there other characters that this happens for? --Bequw (talk) 04:20, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
%22
WP has ISBN, RFC and PMID automatic links. I'd like to see OCLC links generated the same way (Sorry if this is not the best place for this subject; I couldn't find a better one). WCCasey (talk) 04:48, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Not Clear About PMID - Need To know (I think) the PMID of the Reference attached to this entry - where is the PMID? -or- how does one obtain a PMID for this particular reference?[1]
References
{{cite journal}}
|pmid=
Thanks in advance - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 19:57, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
If I want to go back to a section I have edited, I can't do it from my list of contributions if the word "anchor" is in the title. Is this a bug that can be fixed, or something that needs to be explained in this article?— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:03, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
{{anchor|...}}
How to link falsetto into a Chinese Wikipedia page that I'm working on?TimHowardII (talk) 21:06, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
I have two subpages from my sand box, /a and /b. I can get to /b from /a by writing {{../b|params..}} but when I try to transclude /a from my sandbox, as {{/a|params..}} it then tries to access b as user/b not user/sandbox/b
{{../b|params..}}
{{/a|params..}}
Or am I doing something wrong? Alternatively, is there an easy way of removing [ and ] from a string? John of Cromer in China (talk) mytime= Sat 13:58, wikitime= 05:58, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
I copy edited the Subpage links section.
BTW, I had to change the bit using the term anchor. It seems that term is defined and used consistently until sections 4, 5, and 6, where it turns into what was before target. I just substitute {{anchor}}.— CpiralCpiral 02:27, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
A subpage is an acceptable construct, except not in article space, (but it is acceptable in article talk space). When this happens, links to and from a subpage are very convenient, even if there is an entire array of subpages in a tree-like structure. The convenience is that rather than requiring a page name in the link, a relative reference to its parent page is denoted ".." in a wikilink on that (child) subpage, and a closing "/" is required. The link will display the actual page name, not the dots.
..
/
For example, a search for subpages of the Manual of style shows that it has a total of 138 subpages. But these are arranged in a subpage-tree structure, having 97 branches, 35 of which have two subpages, and 5 of which have three subpages. Surely these six pages of the Manual of style are interlinked using the subpage links as in the table that follows.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Signatures Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial/Internal guidelines
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Signatures
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial/Internal guidelines
Given the seven page names Fullpagename/A/B/C plus Fullpagename/S/T/V:
[[../]]
[[../../]]
[[/C]]
[[../S]]
[[../../S/T]]
Linking to a section heading or {{anchor}} also works. The syntax is [[../#section name]].
[[../#section name]]
Because any title can have a "/" in it, it is not clear from a title Pagename/a/b/c/d whether b/c has one or two parent pages (unless the search/navigation box is used). Where an article title starts with the "/" character, the workaround uses the syntax [[:''pagename'']], where the first character of the pagename is "/" . (An initial colon is always allowed in links to, and inclusions from, article namespace to denote "mainspace". Use only when needed.)
[[:''pagename'']]
For more information:
Section first says (they) "take a prefix ":x:" which specifies the target site". And later it says: for example, [[m:Help:Link]] links to the "Help:Link" page on Meta ...
[[m:Help:Link]]
But m:Help:Link is not in the form that has a prefix ":x:". Yurivict (talk) 02:41, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Greetings! Does anobody know how to make an intra-link to a subsection? For example, if there was an hypothetical article Alphabet, and it had a section called == Vowels == and a subsection === Letter A ===, how can you make an intra-link to the subsection === Letter A ===? (Alphabet -> Vowels -> Letter A)
I tried to find an answer from the Help -section, but there was no mention of such a case. Therefore, I'd like to suggest that such instructions are included to the current Help -site :P Cheers! Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 20:55, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
This history link shows the earlier topics which were on this talk page before they were deleted by Uncle G's 'bot 21:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC). (They have nothing to do with the heading "From Meta:Help talk:Link" – that heading was just an empty topic created by Uncle G's 'bot.) --83.255.55.91 (talk) 17:38, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Is it possible to print red links (articles that have not been made) as plain text, without the use of ParserFuntions?
Example: [[link|name|non-existent=plaintext]] = or something of that sort. I repeat - I cannot use ParserFunctions where I wish to achieve this, so it has to be a build-in feature.
Thanks! --62.65.192.86 (talk) 14:45, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
<nowiki>...</nowiki>
<nowiki>[[link|name]]</nowiki>
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I'm trying to make a link to a section (or subsecion) of an old version of an article. Clicking the link takes me to the old version of the article, but the section anchor seems to have no effect. The cursor always ends up at the top of the page. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DVdm&oldid=655052178#Proper_length ([3]). If indeed this does not work, shouldn't that be reflected on this help page?
But perhaps I missed something. If so, any idea what I can do? - DVdm (talk) 08:57, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
Bingo! Go to Preferences, Gadgets, Browsing, option "The revisionjumper creates an interface which allows you to jump between different revisions."
Turn it off and the problem is solved. User DerHexer pinged. Thanks, PrimeHunter for having pointed me in the right direction! - DVdm (talk) 15:08, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:Red link#Proposal regarding redlinks in navigation templates — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 20:50, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi! You may be interested in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Linking#Saxon genitive and piping. It is about [[George Washington|George Washington's]] administration vs. [[George Washington]]'s administration wikilinks. Thanks in advance! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 04:55, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
[[George Washington|George Washington's]] administration
[[George Washington]]'s administration
I am attempting to make a link to a subsection of another page, and the link keeps taking me to the bottom of the page instead of the subsection. Anyone know how to fix this?
Example: {{OP|Document:MainSection#subsectiontitle|subSectiontitle}}
This link, goes to the bottom of the "Document" instead of the "subsectiontitle". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhmechanic (talk • contribs) 17:32, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
We have had a bunch of new editors asking questions about this page.....seems people are overwhelmed with all the technical data and wording. Think its time we make a simple page to link for new editors... as of now best to link Wikipedia:Tutorial/Wikipedia links for new editors. Will work on this next week. -- Moxy (talk) 23:43, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
The article needs to have a treatment of how to handle linking to section titles which have embedded slashes, and why it doesn't work "the normal way" but requires an escape; for example: #Gender identity and sexuality/sexual orientation. This arose from a question on my Talk page. I answered in part, but didn't go into detail about where the 2F escape comes from, because I was worried about burying a new user in TMI about an arcane topic. But a full explanation of the issue would be completely appropriate here at Help:Link.
There is already a section #Disallowed_characters in the article, but a new explanation doesn't belong there (at least, not if the section title remains the same) as slash is not a disallowed character in section names. Possibly it could go there if the section were renamed '#Special characters' with sub-subsections '#Disallowed', '#Meta', and '#Slash'. Otherwise, perhaps it could be added to #Section linking (anchors) (aka, WP:ANCHOR).
The new treatment might also mention in passing that the Manual of Style frowns on the use of slash to join words as a general rule. In addition, possibly something should be mentioned, or maybe just a link added, about the different default handling of slash in Main: and Talk: namespaces with respect to slashes in the page title and whether subpages are automatically created or not, if that's not too O/T. Mathglot (talk) 20:43, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
[ ] { | }
Don't know where else to take this issue, but the "Highlight duplicate links" button in the "tools" section has been malfunctioning for a while. Before, it distinguished between the lead and the article body when highlighting duplinks, but now it counts links in the article body as duplinks if they are linked in the intro, which makes the feature pretty much useless. Can someone change it back to how it was? FunkMonk (talk) 20:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
URLs like https://www.google.com/search?q="awarded+a+royal+charter" render as:
https://www.google.com/search?q="awarded+a+royal+charter"
or, in square brackets, as:
Can someone add a note on how to use them correctly, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:27, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22awarded+a+royal+charter%22
[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22awarded+a+royal+charter%22 https://www.google.com/search?q="awarded+a+royal+charter"]
{{Google|"awarded a royal charter"}}
Hi all,
I have been looking around (Inlcuding in the WP:WikiProject Red Link Recovery) for information on how to remove all red links from an article (The article in question 2002 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, was translated from the German Wikipedia; which has red links, and more pool players on), as the ones that have been translated are non-notable. The only thing I've seen is that it may be possible via AWB; but didn't go into details. Is there any way to change this information (as I may need to use this more than once, and manually it's quite the job)? Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 11:45, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
\[\[([^\|]*?)\]\]
{{subst:#ifexist:$1|[[$1]]|$1}}
ifexist
MY user page is Rosogolla Film, Wikipedia published my page, Rasgulla Film, Which is not correct. Page link URL is redirect with Rusgulla desert, I want ot remove this URL. How to solve my problem. Please help me. Bhattacharya rani (talk) 11:25, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
[[Rosogolla (film)]]
Is there a way to have a link that could e.g. contain ~~~~? I tried the magic words like fullurl, but the only way to prevent the conversion to a signature seems to be <nowiki>. Watchduck (quack) 15:40, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
~~~~
fullurl
<nowiki>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~<!---->~~
[[~~]]
[[~<!---->~]]
[[~~<!---->~~]]
<!---->
%257E
<hr>
<hr />
http://example.com?[string]
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Bot requests § Fixing broken shortcuts to sections. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 05:54, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
I've collated and extended the available help on this worthy topic. Feel free to share your thoughts on my efforts CapnZapp (talk) 10:08, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
I'm placing this here rather than the help desk because it seems like it might be an obscure question. If the help desk is a better place, please let me know.
Question: Is there a way to create a consistent anchor or link in a Talk page so the the anchor or link still works after the relevant section has been archived? Thanks. Finney1234 (talk) 02:07, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
None of the magic words fix this issue in any way that I could work out: Try either linking or wikilinking to this lovely Talk thread using magic words (and please post if you can): Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_41#{{Cite_book}}_and_|contribution_problems. I did it with a simple online percent-encoder, but I don't see how a magic word can do it without first encoding some of the text manually. So some kind of web app has to be linked to. If there's an appropriate tool (open source or whatever) or an alternative simple method that the community would prefer, list it or replace it later. Otherwise I'll add this one in a week or so. SamuelRiv (talk) 01:57, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_41#{{Cite_book}}_and_|contribution_problems
Help_talk:Template#Who_decided_to_make_us_type_{{#ifeq:{{{1|{{{2|{{{3|}}}}}}}}}}}???
[[Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 41#{{anchorencode:{<nowiki/>{Cite book}<nowiki/>} and {{!}}contribution problems}}]]
I reverted the supplied example. I don't have anything against it technically, but it ambushes the reader with a serious case of technobabble, and I just want us to first ask ourselves: is it worth it?
What I mean is, if we identify a real need to go into this level of detail, we must ensure we bring our readers along. As written, the section made a lot of assumptions of the technical competence of the reader, and did not introduce the problem. Also, can we come up with a less absurdly complex example to get the same point across? Isn't it much simpler to do the "try it out and see what the web browser resolves it to" method?
I'm not saying I have the answers. (I'm not even entirely sure I understand the question!) I just think a second pass on this would be worthwhile. If y'all disagree, feel free to undo the undo and not much time was lost. CapnZapp (talk) 12:14, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
Wikilinks to sections of an article don't seem to work in the IOS app when the target is within the same article. Is that a known issue and if so, is there a workaround using anchors or explicit HTML? Onceler (talk) 19:27, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
In the following:
Article:Tim Bray
Wikilink:Antarctica Systems
Onceler (talk) 11:41, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
What I mean is that what happens is nothing: selecting the link takes you to where you already were. Instead of changing the focus to the linked section as expected, the view just remains the same.
Thanks for the tip. I don’t disagree about starting section links to elsewhere in the same article with the ‘#’ directly, omitting the redundant article name, but that didn’t seem to help when I tried to edit it. This link cited as an example was already in that form when I first found it. Onceler (talk) 02:47, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
Which is preferred, a redirect (e.g. [[neologistic]]) or a non-redirect wikilink ([[Neologism|neologistic]])? Someone changed it on Neopronoun and I was curious if it's a norm in the lead — Tazuco ✉️ 15:47, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
§ Using a redirect as alternative suggests using the target of a link to convey additional information – invisible in the main text, but available to an interested reader. This contradicts MOS:NOFORCELINK and is not accessible. For abbreviations, {{abbr}} or {{abbrlink}} are appropriate. For non-abbreviations, MOS:NOHOVER discourages tooltips; instead, use H:NOTES.
I propose that the page should either:
jlwoodwa (talk) 20:51, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
|answered=
A wikilink (or internal link) is a link from one page to another page within the English Wikipedia, or, more generally, within the same Wikipedia (e.g. within the French Wikipedia), in other words: within the same domain, or, even more generally, within the same Wikimedia project (e.g. within Wiktionary). 223.177.183.193 (talk) 08:07, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
Simple question: what is In the context of a link from an anchor to a target, it is the starting place. and could you give an example of when this occurs? CapnZapp (talk) 12:44, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
In the context of a link from an anchor to a target, it is the starting place.
I can't tell if this is intentional or a glitch. In mobile view, links I have already clicked, instead of being purple, are the same color as normal text. This makes it impossible to tell if a word is linked if you have clicked a link to that article before. This issue applies to normal links, section links, and every other kind of link that changes from blue to purple when clicked. The links are still the correct color in desktop view. QuicoleJR (talk) 21:43, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Suggest adding a short section about linking to redirect pages. Currently, there are a couple of mentions of the "redirect=no" parameter as an example of something simple wikilinks can't do, and how to do it with general-purpose templates like {{plain link}} and {{querylink}} instead. Which is great, but overkill when all one wants to do is link to instead of thru a regular redirect, which is bound to account for the majority of use cases. Draft:
{{-r|Shakespeare}}
{{-r|Shakespeare|Shakespeare (redirect)}}
{{r?|Shakespeare}} redirects to {{r?|William Shakespeare}}
This should go anywhere before § Special pages links, so that by the time the reader gets to the first "redirect=no" example there, they already know they don't need to do it that way in straightforward cases. - 2A02:560:5829:B000:B9F7:CF82:EEE5:7596 (talk) 16:39, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Special pages links says: Because the ampersand character is disallowed, it is not possible to create an ordinary link containing action edit or redirect no in the URL query string. In these cases, use templates or magic words, see Links containing URL query strings.
Because the ampersand character is disallowed, it is not possible to create an ordinary link containing action edit or redirect no in the URL query string. In these cases, use templates or magic words, see Links containing URL query strings.
Isn't this sufficient? CapnZapp (talk) 10:50, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
{{Edit semi-protected}}
@CapnZapp and Pokechu22: So, my edit was only partially correct. #top all lowercase is actually special cased by MediaWiki (see mw:Help:Links#A manual anchor). Any other capitalization falls back to the HTML spec. If you're on Vector legacy, it's kinda obvious, #Top goes to the very top of the page but #top goes to the page title. So, if we decide to keep my addition, we may want to clarify a little more. Nickps (talk) 19:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
