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== Interwiki links == | == Interwiki links == | ||
| − | Interwiki links are links with the internal link markup to a website registered in advance. For example, you can link to the | + | Interwiki links are links with the internal link markup to a website registered in advance. For example, you can link to the Engine article on http://en.wikipedia.org by typing <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:Engine]]</nowiki></code>, which will result in a link [[wikipedia:Engine]]. This is because <code><nowiki>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</nowiki></code> is registered to your wiki by default with the prefix of <code>wikipedia</code>. ''This link may not work properly, if the admin of your wiki has changed the setting.'' |
| − | Similar to internal page links, you can create piped links, with alternate link label, e.g. <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia: | + | Similar to internal page links, you can create piped links, with alternate link label, e.g. <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:Engine|Link to engine article]]</nowiki></code>. |
| − | Basically this is an abbreviation for longer URLs. A very similar link could be created as a normal external link by typing <code><nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | + | Basically this is an abbreviation for longer URLs. A very similar link could be created as a normal external link by typing <code><nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine Engine]</nowiki></code>, but interwiki links allow you to type out an easy and compact link, almost as if you are linking to a page on your own wiki. |
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