Aide: Liens

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Il existe cinq types de liens hypertextes dans MediaWiki:

To create a so-called internal link to a page on the same wiki (a "wikilink"), use double square brackets wiki markup, [[like this]]. When you preview or save your changes, you will see a link that can be followed to the target page. If the page exists the link is displayed in blue (like the word "create" in the first sentence of this paragraph); if the page does not exist, the link appears red (so the [[like this]] link is actually rendered like this). Note that the colors could be different if the color scheme of the wiki has been changed from the default. Following such a "redlink" to a missing page (whether or not it is actually red) will usually enable the user to create the page.

If the page title you are linking to is that of the page you are editing, the result is not a hyperlink at all but simply bold text (for example, on this page the markup [[Help:Links/frc]] gives the result Help:Links/frc). If you're trying to create a wikilink to the current page, you probably want to link to a specific section or to an anchor within the page; see the examples below.

Name/Description	Syntax	Result
Internal link	[[Main Page]] [[Help:Contents]] [[Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)]]	Main Page Help:Contents Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)
Piped link	[[Help:Editing pages|editing help]] Links to a section/anchor within the target page. [[Help:Editing pages#Preview|previewing]] Piped link to an anchor on the same page [[#See also|different text]] See also Help:Piped link.	editing help previewing different text
Pipe trick	[[Manual:Extensions|]] [[User:John Doe|]] [[Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)|]] [[Extension:DynamicPageList (disambiguation)|]] The transformation done by the pipe trick can result in the same text for different link targets, as seen in the DynamicPageList examples.	Extensions John Doe DynamicPageList DynamicPageList
Word-ending links	[[Help]]s [[Help]]ing [[Help]]ers [[Help]]almostanylettersyoulikehere [[Help]]BUTnotalways Follows so-called "linktrail rules" localised per each language.	Helps Helping Helpers Helpalmostanylettersyoulikehere HelpBUTnotalways
Avoiding word-ending links	[[Help]]<nowiki />ful advice [[wikipedia:GNU General Public License|GPL]]<nowiki />v3	Helpful advice GPLv3
Link to an anchor on the same page	[[#See also]] Anchors are provided automatically on section headings and to the top ([[#top]]) of the page.	#See also
Setting an anchor for incoming links	<div id="Unique anchor name 1">optional text</div> <span id="Unique anchor name 2">optional text</span> Rendered block-level and inline, respectively. Doing this would allow for [[#Unique anchor name 1]] on the same page or [[Help:Links/frc#Unique anchor name 1]] on a different page. Omit the "optional text" for an invisible anchor. Setting an anchor in a section heading ==<span id="Alternate Section Title"></span>Section heading== Note the placement. This must be a "span" tag, not a "div". (Such anchors allow sections to be retitled without breaking incoming links.)	optional text optional text Section heading
Link to an anchor at another page	[[Help:Images#Supported media types for images]]	Help:Images#Supported media types for images
Link to the current page's talk page	[[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|Discussion]] See also Help:Magic words#Page names	Discussion
Link to a subpage	[[/example]] Shortcut for [[Help:Links/example|/example]]. See also Help:Subpages .	/example
Link to a subpage without the leading slash	[[/example/]] Shortcut for [[Help:Links/example|example]].	example
Link to a subpage of parent page for current page. Can only be used on subpages.	[[../example2]] Shortcut for [[Help:Links/example2|example2]] if you post the link on [[Help:Links/example|example]] page.	example2
Visible link to a category page	[[:Category:Help]] Without the leading colon the link would not be visible and the page would instead be placed into the category; this is a very common mistake. See also Help:Categories .	Category:Help
Visible link to an image or media file	[[:File:Example.jpg]] [[:File:Example.jpg|file label]] [[Media:Example.jpg]] [[Media:Example.jpg|file label]] Without the leading colon on the "File:" examples, the images would actually be displayed. See also Help:Images . The Media: prefix is used to link directly to the uploaded file, rather than the file-information page.	File:Example.jpg file label Media:Example.jpg file label
Link to a page specific to each reader (user page, etc.)	[[Special:MyPage]] [[Special:MyTalk]] [[Special:Preferences]]	Special:MyPage Special:MyTalk Special:Preferences
Internal link to a specific revision	[[Special:PermanentLink/2393992]] Revision numbers can be found in each page's edit history. (It is very common to see links to specific revisions implemented as external links because it's easy to cut-and-paste an entire URL to form an external link.)	Special:PermanentLink/2393992
Internal link to a "diff"	[[Special:Diff/2393992]] [[Special:Diff/2390639/2393992]] The default (in the first example above) is to show the changes from the previous revision. See also the comments in the previous item.	Special:Diff/2393992 Special:Diff/2390639/2393992
Redirect	#REDIRECT [[Main Page]] Should be the first line on the page. See Help:Redirects .	Main Page

[https://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]

[https://mediawiki.org]

https://mediawiki.org

<nowiki>https://mediawiki.org</nowiki>

[//en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]

[//en.wikipedia.org //en.wikipedia.org]

https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename

https://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}

[mailto:info@example.org email me]

[mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&body=Body%20Text info]

[skype:echo123 call me]

Email links use mailto: before the address. They're written like this: [mailto:anyone@example.org address name] (resulting in address name). If there's no name, the address is automatically numbered, like this: [mailto:anyone@example.org] becomes [2]. Addresses without square brackets won't be linked, e.g., anyone@example.com. You can also add a CC using [mailto:anyone@example.org?cc=anyone2@example.org address name] (resulting in address name). To add a subject, use [mailto:me@me.com?subject=Me] "

[https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Links&action=edit Edit this page]

[{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} Edit this page]

<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Links&action=edit Edit this page]</span>

Some skins add an arrow icon after each external link by default. However, this can be avoided by using class="plainlinks". For instance:

• [http://a a] gives a
• <span class="plainlinks">[http://a a]</span> gives a

Special:Linksearch is a built-in tool that helps find pages linked to a specific URL. By using the externallinks table, it generates a comprehensive list of page names where the link originates, along with the complete target link for each source page. You can search in all namespaces or just one. It supports wildcard (*) use, so you can search by top-level domain (e.g. [3]), second-level domain (e.g. [4]), etc. or refine your search by specifying parts of the URL e.g. [5].

Notes:

• Avoid including "http://".
• The program might not return any results if there is a colon in the URL.
• MediaWiki page names in URLs should have underscores instead of spaces. The Linksearch function also requires underscores in URLs.
• Linksearch is sensitive to capitalization, multiple underscores, and the use of "index.php". It may not find alternative URLs even if they lead to the same target. Therefore, when creating an external link, it's best to use the canonical form of the URL. If the address bar displays a modified URL after following a link, update the URL in the link accordingly for optimal use of Linksearch.
• The list is sorted by URL, using standard page name order. Note that an underscore, unlike a blank space, is alphabetically positioned between "Z" and "a".

Normally, internal links within a project are easy to spot and useful for finding related pages. But when there's a mix of internal and external links, it can be tricky to track backlinks, it necessitates the use of both "Help:What links here" and "Linksearch". However, for links to specific sections or anchors, it's possible to include both an internal link and, with CSS styling using "display=none" an external link to provide backlink.

External links are better than interwiki links. With Linksearch, you can even find backlinks to specific sections or anchors. So, combining both internal and external links while hiding the external ones "<span style="display:none">http://...</span>", gives us the best of both worlds.

1. External links doesn't support Word-ending links.
2. External links doesn't count toward Special:WhatLinksHere (What links here).

Interwiki links are internal-style links to other websites (which do not have to be wikis, despite the name). For example, you can link to the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower by typing [[wikipedia:Sunflower]] or, on this wiki, the shorter [[w:Sunflower]]. Both will result in a link wikipedia:Sunflower. This works because by default MediaWiki configures wikipedia: as an "interwiki prefix" that turns into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ when used inside [[ ]]. (It may not work if the admin of your wiki has changed the setting.) Unlike internal links, interwiki links do not use page existence detection, so an interwiki link will appear blue even if the page does not exist on the remote wiki.

More details are at Manual:Interwiki . Your wiki may have a Special:Interwiki page listing the interwiki prefixes it supports; here is the default interwiki list. You can edit the interwiki table on your site.

In wiki markup an interlanguage link looks very much like an interwiki link, but behaves similarly to a category link in that it is rendered in a special way. While category links appear in a special list at the bottom of the page (usually), interlanguage links appear in a special list in the sidebar of the page (or elsewhere, depending on the wiki's configuration and the skin used).

The purpose of interlanguage links is to link pages on the same topics in different languages. To create an interlanguage link, type [[language prefix:page name]] anywhere in the page (preferably at the bottom, like category links); the language prefix is the prefix specified at your wiki for the other language version (typically the ISO 639-1 language code). The interlanguage link is unilateral, it does not point back from that page in the other language. For that purpose, an equivalent back-link needs to be placed there as well. It does not work like the "Edit links" in the languages section of Wikipedia-language versions. But it can be used across all name spaces, including 'User:' to point to ones other profiles in other languages.

This is useful in cases where the user wants to values of 'target page name' and 'label' to be different. This also enables linking a contextually relevant word or phrase within the text of a page rather than using the generic value "see also". The wording does not need to match the name of the target page. Depending on the preferences set for the current user and a supported browser, you can still see the link target: when you hover your cursor over the link, the name shows up in a pop-up window and is also shown in the status bar.

[[coffeehouse setup|Get Piping Hot Coffee Here!]]

will show: Get Piping Hot Coffee Here!

Let's take another example: [[help:Piped link|piped link]] will be displayed as piped link. This can be done when context makes it clear that the page being linked to is in the help namespace. The piped link is a better way of doing this, rather than mistakenly linking to piped link which might be a disambiguation page or not exist.

Fun Fact: The term piped refers to the use of the pipe character "|", which in this context is used to separate the more descriptive description from the actual name of the linked page.

To create Get Piping Hot Coffee Here!, use [[Get Piping Hot Coffee Here!]] and make it redirect to coffeehouse setup (please note: unlike above, what pops up when you point at the link, depending on your browser's support, is the text that is already shown).

It is convenient if the redirect is already there or will also be of use elsewhere. However, there are a few drawbacks.

• the popup does not show the destination page
• "Related changes" shows the changes in the redirect page not the redirect target
• the redirect message that is shown on the target page slightly clutters it

Using a piped link and a redirect together, it is possible to provide information in the hover box that is not the name of the linked page, for example, the value of a unit in terms of other units. In that case, it is possible to make a page whose page name is the information that you'd like in the link title, and which redirects to the page with a more appropriate name.

1. Any word that is before the first colon (:), as well as the colon character itself, is removed. This word may or may not be a 'namespace' prefix (such as "Help:") or an 'interwiki' prefix (such as "commons:"). If the name of the page is preceded by a colon (:), "first" refers to "first after this".
2. If there is some text in the parentheses at the end, then it will be removed.
3. If there are no parentheses, but there is a comma (,) character, the comma and everything after it is removed.
4. Note that this does not work for sections/anchors as [[Help:Piped_link#Pipe_trick|]] outputs [[Help:Piped_link#Pipe_trick|]].

• [[Help:Template|]] is converted to [[Help:Template|Template]], which is shown as Template
• [[Music: My life|]] is converted to [[Music: My life| My life]], which is shown as My life - although "Music:" itself is not a namespace (therefore the space after the colon character is not automatically removed), however, the shortcut works anyway
• [[w:en:Pipe (computing)|]] is converted to [[w:en:Pipe (computing)|en:Pipe]], which is shown as en:Pipe.
• [[commons:Boston, Massachusetts|]] is converted to [[commons:Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], which is shown as Boston.
• [[w:{{{1}}}|]] does not give [[w:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]], and calling the template with a value of parameter 1 gives a working link, but in the case of substitution only.
• [[w:en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|]] does not give [[w:en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]] and [[m:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|]] does not give [[m:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
• [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Pipe trick|]] is not converted, so it does not give a working link.

* [[project:a (b)|]]
* [[w:project:a (b)|]]
* [[:de:project:a (b)|]]
* [[wiktionary:project:a (b)|]]
* [[wiktionary:de:project:a (b)|]]
* [[wikibooks:project:a (b)|]]
* [[wikiquote:project:a (b)|]]
* [[wikisource:project:a (b)|]]
* [[wikisource:project:a (b)#c|]]
* [[w:en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|]] [[w:en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|en:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
* [[m:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|]] [[m:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]

* a
* project:a
* project:a
* project:a
* de:project:a
* project:a
* project:a
* project:a
* [[wikisource:project:a (b)#c|]]
* [[w:en:Help:Links/frc|]] en:Help:Links/frc
* [[m:Help:Links/frc|]] Help:Links/frc

• [[Help:L{{tc}}k|]] using template:tc is not converted, so the result is rendered as [[Help:Link|]] which is not as a working link. This is because like substitution, the pipe trick expansion occurs before ordinary expansion of the templates, etc. The pipe trick does not work if the linked page includes invalid characters. Therefore, while ordinarily the acceptability of the target page name is assessed after template expansion, the pipe trick expansion judges it before that. The braces are therefore considered invalid characters in the page name. Instead, a template can be used like template:pipe trick: {{pipe trick|Help:|L{{tc}}k}} which renders as Link.