Help:Tutorial (Internal links)
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Internal links
One of the things that makes wiki sites useful (and addictive) is extensive cross-listing by internal links. These easily-created links allow users to access information related to the article they're reading.
When to link
The easiest way to learn when to link is to look at other articles for examples. If you're trying to decide whether to make a link or not, ask yourself "If I were reading this article, would the link be useful to me?"
How to link
When you want to make a link to another page (called a wiki link) you have to put it in double square brackets, like this:
- [[article]]
For example, if you want to make a link to, say, the Classic Brainstorming page, it would be:
- [[Classic Brainstorming]]
Also remember that the links are created automatically, so if you put double square brackets around a word, it becomes a link, and because of that you have to be careful about disambiguation.
If you want to use words other than the article title as the text of the link, you can add an alternative name by adding after the pipe "|" divider (SHIFT + BACKSLASH on English-layout and other keyboards).
For example, if you wanted to make a link to the tutorial page Tutorial (Related site links), but wanted it to say "continue" you would write it as such:
- To view the next section, press [[Tutorial (Related site links)|continue]]...
It would appear as:
- To view the next section, press continue ...
Categories
You can also put the article in a category with others in a related topic. Just type [[Category:]], and put the name of the category between the colon and the brackets.
To make a link to a Category page (for example, as a reference for further research), simply put a colon (:) at the beginning of the "Category" tag, like this:
- [[:Category:Creativity Techniques]]
The above code would produce the following:
For more information regarding categories and categorization, refer to the Categories page.
Continue with the tutorial.