Difference between revisions of "Help:How to make links"

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==Redirect links==
 
==Redirect links==
 
Say you make a page that has multiple possible names and you want them all to go to your page. For instance you make an article called instrutional swim but if some one searches swimming you want it to go to your page. What you do is make a the page swimming and all you put on it is a redirect link that directs them to the instructional swim page. You can do this by using the syntax <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Instructional swim]]</nowiki>. No if you search swimming you will automaticly go to the instructional swim article. The only way to get back to the swimming article if you need to is to search swimming and on the top of the instructional swim article clikc the link to go back to the page you got redirected from.
 
Say you make a page that has multiple possible names and you want them all to go to your page. For instance you make an article called instrutional swim but if some one searches swimming you want it to go to your page. What you do is make a the page swimming and all you put on it is a redirect link that directs them to the instructional swim page. You can do this by using the syntax <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Instructional swim]]</nowiki>. No if you search swimming you will automaticly go to the instructional swim article. The only way to get back to the swimming article if you need to is to search swimming and on the top of the instructional swim article clikc the link to go back to the page you got redirected from.

Revision as of 20:13, 22 January 2008

In the table below you can link to different places

Description You type You get
Link to a Birchrockopedia page [[Main Page]] Main Page
Link to a Birchrockopedia category [[:Category:Activities]] Category:Activities
Link to a Birchrockopedia page
with different text
[[Main Page|different text]] different text
Link to a Birchrockopedia category
with different text
[[:Category:Swimming|different text]] different text
Link to a section of an article [[#Redirect links]] #Redirect links
Link to a section of an article
with different text
[[#Redirect links|redirecting help]] redirecting help
Link to a different site http://www.birchrock.org/ http://www.birchrock.org/
Link to a different site with
different text
[http://www.birchrock.org/] Birch Rock
Link to a different site,
unnamed
[http://www.birchrock.org/] [1]
Link to media uploaded on
Birchrockopedia
[[Media:Loonbadge.jpg]] Media:Loonbadge.jpg the loon badge
Link to the description
page of media uploaded
on Birchrockopedia
[[:Image:Loonbadge.jpg]] Image:Loonbadge.jpg

Redirect links

Say you make a page that has multiple possible names and you want them all to go to your page. For instance you make an article called instrutional swim but if some one searches swimming you want it to go to your page. What you do is make a the page swimming and all you put on it is a redirect link that directs them to the instructional swim page. You can do this by using the syntax #REDIRECT [[Instructional swim]]. No if you search swimming you will automaticly go to the instructional swim article. The only way to get back to the swimming article if you need to is to search swimming and on the top of the instructional swim article clikc the link to go back to the page you got redirected from.