Help:Links
From PLN
You're likely to use two types of links in the PALINET Leadership Network (PLN):
- internal links to other pages in PLN
- external links to websites
To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already, it is displayed in blue. Empty pages are displayed in red. Selflinks to the current page are not transformed in URLs but displayed in bold.
- The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).
- If you want to display a different page name than the actual link, create a piped link by adding a vertical bar after the target page name followed by the name you want to display. See the table for an example.
To add an external link (link to a URL), just type in the full URL, including http:\\.
- You should normally provide the name of the external resource. To do that, key a square bracket, the full URL, a space, the name you want to display, and a closing square bracket. So, for example, [http://pln.palinet.org PALINET Leadership Network] results in a link to the PLN home page: PALINET Leadership Network.
The table includes special linking cases and examples of linking to category pages and page subheadings.
How to link
| Description | You type | You get |
| Internal link | [[PLN Home]] | PLN Home |
| Category link | [[:Category:Help]] | Category:Help |
| Piped link | [[PLN Home|different text]] | different text |
| Anchor link | [[#External links|Anchor link]] | Anchor link |
| External link | http://palinet.org | http://palinet.org |
| External link, different title | [http://palinet.org PALINET] | PALINET |
| External link, unnamed | [http://palinet.org] | [1] |
| mailto | mailto:info@example.org | mailto:info@example.org |
| mailto unnamed | [mailto:info@example.org] | [2] |
| mailto named | [mailto:info@example.org info] | info |
| Special cases Rarely used in PLN | ||
| External link from internal image | [http://targetURL {{Server}}/wiki/images/imagelocation] | |
| Internal link stored on intranet server | [file:///\\server_name123\pubshare_name\internal_webpage.htm internal_webpage.htm] | internal_webpage.htm |
| External link, same host unnamed | [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename] | [3] |
| Interwiki link | [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]] | Wikipedia:MediaWiki |
| redirect | #REDIRECT [[PLN Home]] | → PLN Home |
