How do I link to category or special pages? for example
[[Category:Consonant_Assimilation]]
Obviously is a different syntax.I want to link to that page.
211.47.123.21 - 07:40, 11 October 2008
[[:Category:Consonant_Assimilation]]. Same trick for linking to image pages -- Harry Wood 18:44, 11 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
Sorry I did't catch that! Thanks a lot 211.47.123.21
I am not sure about this anchor links to jump to a section on the same site. It not work on mediawiki sites. But it work on w3c sites like http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/about.html, therefore what's the problem? --Lastwebpage 09:14, 30 August 2008 (UTC)Reply
I have not figured out how to get MediaWiki to let me do this. I tried
<foo@bar.com> <foo@bar.com>%20First%20Last <foo@bar.com> <foo@bar.com> First%20Last First%20Last First Last <foo@bar.com>%20First%20Last First Last <foo@bar.com> First Last
None of these works.
This workaround is as close as I could come:
First Last
Dave Yost 21:26, 2 September 2008 (UTC)Reply
[mailto:foo@bar.com First Last <foo@bar.com>] works and is displayed (as you wish) as First Last <foo@bar.com>. The structure is generally the same as for normal external links: [link linkttitle]. --:bdk: 23:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)Reply
Hi there, does anyone know, how to link with a file on a local volume? e. g. [c:\User\Martin\Alice.xls] or [file:///c:\User\Martin\Alice.xls] doesn't work. Thank you -Rob.
[mailto:Doe, John (EKDD/1) ]doesn't work, only the string Doe is transfered into the Outlook to:
Expml: John (EKDD/1)
What shall I do, to make it work? --User: EnterpriseWiki
Answer: John Doe [mailto:Doe,John%20(EKDD/1) John Doe]
Someone jnows a less cryptic version? --User: EnterpriseWiki
Is there a way to include subject fields and other options in a mailto link in mediawiki? The HTML syntax for mailto links would be <a href="mailto:foo@bar?subject=a subject>text</a>, but this obviously fails because any space in the subject field would be interpreted as the separator... and standard html doesn't work at all. Is there any workaround for this, or some feature of the software that I have overlooked? --89.207.208.9 11:02, 12 December 2008 (UTC) Carelesshx 11:03, 12 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
[mailto:foo@bar?subject=a%20subject] is displayed as [1]. I also had problems with special characters (Latin), so I had to use the hexadecimal values of ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin 1) character encoding preceded by "%". I don't know if the characters are displayed correctly for everyone, but it worked for me. Example: [mailto:foo@bar?subject=informa%E7%F5es&body=test] is displayed as [2] -- 201.76.26.103 23:53, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Is there a good way to designate words or phrases that should automatically link to certain pages? For example if I have an auto-repair wiki and I want every occurence of the phrase "distributor cap" on any page to link to the "Distributor" page, is there a way to do this without manually assigning the link each time? --IP 13 January 2009
Does anyone know of a way (new syntax perhaps?) that allows for internal links to open up in another window? I prefer not to modify code that affects all internal links, only those that we want. Is this even possible? I know in html you can use target="_new" or "_blank" to <a> tags. Would love a Wikitext equivalent. Soonshort 09:57, 16 October 2009 (UTC)Reply
It is not possible with wiki code, as far as I know, but it can be done with JavaScript:
https://www.google.com/search?q=target=+_blank+javascript
You might find some easy copy-and-paste code at that search. When you find something you think may work for you, put it in your MediaWiki:Common.js. And, of course, report back the results of your research so others can benefit from it too. Badon (talk) 06:03, 12 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
This can done but requires an extension. Install from here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkTarget As of this timestamp, example 3 on the linked page does what you want. Add the suggested lines to your LocalSettings.php file, then all your existing link tags should then open in a new tab. It can be overridden using the span class wrapper, which is also explained on that page. Polymath uk (talk) 13:36, 23 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
The default wikilink title is the target page title (this is undocumented). How do I specify a custom title that better matches the context? Example: at w:Bohm interpretation there is a wikilink to w:Copenhagen interpretation and the title is "Copenhagen interpretation". It would be much more informative to make the title "the state of every particle is described by a wavefunction". --Yecril 08:07, 19 October 2009 (UTC)Reply
We are using Mediawiki 1.8.2. It's easy to determine an external link like [[http://etc]] that points to "all pages" with the namespace parameter set - i.e. to a dynamic list of all existing user pages or all categories in a given Wiki. Does this work in Wiki syntax too? How? Thanks. Burkhard 29 Oct 2009
I want to create an internal link (to a specific wiki page) on a message page (MediaWiki:Badaccess-groups). So, when the user sees that page they will get a link to a page (access restriction) explaining more. When I add the link I see access restriction (bold, link: correct). But when a user who does not have access sees the page they see '''[[access restriction]]''' i.e. it looks to them like the nowiki tags are present.
Does anyone have a solution? --Robinson Weijman 09:04, 26 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
Please document the "Pipe trick" on this page, if in no other way then by providing a simple example and linking to a fuller description. I found out about it only after I, embarrassingly, wrote an extension that does the same thing. If I missed the docs at Wikipedia and Meta, chances are I'm not the only one.
Thank you! Miranche 20:12, 4 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
Hello, how could we set to open a file with a specific software?
For example when I click on a link like [[File:Email.msg]] it opens in MS-Word. But if I right click on it and save on my desktop, if I open it it appears as I want in Outlook. JackPotte 13:16, 11 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
Hey there, I would like to have the content of one subpage of our Wiki to be displayed in a shorter version (perhaps headlines) in a table on our main page. Has anybody an idea how to do this. BTW I am not an expert....
Thanks! timsen, 16:55, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey there, I've been looking for similar cases, but I haven't found anything on this yet.
I have an article with double straight quotation marks in it (Foo article in "foo section").
The problem is that whenever I create a reference for that article (for example)
and then I save the page, the part that was between the double quotes disappears, so you will only have
Could you please help me on this?
Thanks!
Fladei 04:54, 24 January 2011 (UTC)Reply
Is it possible to create a new customized link category to my corporate address book? [[corpadress:Charlie|charlie johnson]] ?
Is there some list you can look in if you want to find the prefix to a specific wiki that is registered in advance (as it says in the section about Interwiki links), such as Wikipedia, Commons, Wikia or this site (MediaWiki)? That would be really useful, especially since I in fact don't know any way at all to find the prefix to a specific wiki. For example, now I would like to link an article on the OpenGL Wiki, but I can't use an Interwiki link since I don't know the prefix. —Kri 13:49, 12 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
ThaiNM
Need to put this in the internal links table once bug 33437 is fixed (it doesn't work yet):
Badon 23:42, 30 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
In the External links section, it says:
Are you sure it should be PAGENAMEE with two E's? Or should it be PAGENAME? Can someone check and correct this?? --TJRana 22:28, 1 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
I'm making an EXTREMELY looong table on my wiki and would like to be able to create a table of contents at the top of the page to jump to certain sections. How do I create and anchor on a page without using heading? My wiki doesn't have <html> or <a name="xxx"> available to me to do it like I would on a normal web page... -- Technical 13 (talk) 20:14, 24 March 2012 (UTC)Reply
Hi: I am trying to include tel: links into my MediaWiki installation. They should work just like a mailto:foo@foo.bar link, but for telephone numbers. So, they should look like tel:+1234567890. When used on a mobile device these tel: links are opened by the telephone application and can be called directly from the website.
I would like to have the following structure:
Phone: [tel:+1234567890 +1 (123) 456789-0]
I have been looking around the source files to locate the one which defines mailto links for example, but couldn't locate it.
Anyone of you got an idea how to accomplish this?
Thanks Tuluqaruk (talk) 08:26, 10 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
tel: is in the default $wgUrlProtocols since 1.24 Jasonblewis (talk) 22:54, 8 February 2018 (UTC)Reply
Hi all
I have a document on which I have this code: [[Archivo:Work Instructions Mobile Phones Nokia Windows 8 phones Set-up guide for Windows 8.ppt|Documento original]]
It should show as "Documento Original" but shows up as "Archivo:Work Instructions Mobile Phones Nokia Windows 8 phones Set-up guide for Windows 8.ppt"
Any idea?
--12:55, 2 April 2013 (UTC)~
link is not working with "%DA"? --Jmkim dot com (talk) 02:12, 4 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Is the Reverse pipe trick officially supported ? Shoudl it be added to this page ?
Zebulon84 (talk) 16:24, 15 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
In the External link icons section, all the CSS-added icons are now SVG yet the links still point to the old PNGs (which 404). Chris W. (talk | WP profile) 11:30, 2 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
I haven't been able to find any documentation on the difference between using [[File:some file.txt]] and [[Media:some file.txt]]. Initially thought them to be equivalent, but these are some different behaviours I have noticed on our wiki (in these examples 'uploaded file.txt' is an existing file (blue link) while 'not a valid file.txt' is not (red link)):
[[File:uploaded file.txt]] renders as File:uploaded file.txt in blue (OK)[[File:not a valid file.txt]] renders as File:not a valid file.txt in red (OK)[[Media:uploaded file.txt]] renders as Media:uploaded file.txt in blue (OK)[[Media:not a valid file.txt]] renders as Media:not a valid file.txt in red (OK)[[File:uploaded file.txt|alternate text]] renders as File:uploaded file.txt in blue (NOT OK - alternate text not displayed)[[File:not a valid file.txt|alternate text]] renders as alternate text in red (OK)[[Media:uploaded file.txt|alternate text]] renders as alternate text in blue (OK)[[Media:not a valid file.txt|alternate text]] renders as alternate text in red (OK)Is this the default behaviour? If so, I think it should be better documented somewhere.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or comments. Rbirmann (talk) 15:25, 20 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
I must be a bit stupid. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to find out how to paste an article which i have written as a Word file on here. I can't see where to start, as there is no Sandbox.
Should i put it on one of my blogs first and then link to that?
The article i want to put up is The English Spelling System i.e. a much simpler explanation of it than is given under English Orthography on the main Wiki.
Masha Bell
How link from Wikipedia to MediaWiki using internal links (ie. in a similar way to link from here to Wikipedia using [[Wikipedia:]]. --Lagoset (talk) 11:41, 22 January 2015 (UTC)Reply
mw:. Link to this page : [[mw:Help talk:Links]] — Zebulon84 (talk) 08:41, 17 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
With a hierarchy like this:
== item == === created === == account == === created ===
When people link to account.created, it would be Page#created_2, right?
But when there's something added in between, like this:
== item == === created === == category == === created === == account == === created ===
The anchor of account.created would then become #created_3, right? All the links to Page#created_2 before the change would now lead to the wrong section, that is category.created.
Is there any way to fix or work around this problem? Can we make the section anchor permanent once created? So new sections of the same title would have new anchors regardless of its location?
Dotspire (talk) 07:16, 29 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
I tried to use VE to add a link from an article (Arno Schmidt)in SE to one in EN. The SE article is new and has no interwiki links as far as I know. When I chose the language and typed in the title (the same as the SE title), I got this message, which I don't understand: "The page you wanted to link with is already attached to an item on the central data repository which links to Arno Schmidt on this site. Items can only have one page per site attached. Please choose a different page to link with." This is far from simple English, e.g., what central data repository? Is it in SE Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Google, the German national library? why can't I attach another site? etc.Kdammers (talk) 13:51, 7 May 2015 (UTC)Reply
I am attempting to place a link to a section that is below a closed div section on the same page and when i click the link it just drops to the bottom of the page instead of the section needed. anyone know how to resolve this?
Example: {{OP|Mainpage:sectiontitle#subsectiontitle|subsectiontitle}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhmechanic (talk • contribs) 1 September 2015
I would like to have linked keywords on my pages with the links leading users to other pages with the same keyword. I have a way to accomplish this but it's not very elegant. What I do is create a link to the search function, embedding the keyword itself in the parameters. The result is that the user is taken to a search results page based on the keyword.
Specifically, here is the string I'm using:
https://mySite.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=***&fulltext=Search&profile=all
...where "***" is my keyword.
Any thoughts? Is there a better way to accomplish something like this?
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wajohnst (talk • contribs) 11 September 2015
[{{SERVER}}/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search={{PAGENAME}}&fulltext=Search search]
I want to add 2 links to the top right of the wiki. Reason is a language select for the wiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.91.200.233 (talk • contribs) 8 September 2016
In this section it is said: "wherever you like in the page" It may have to be " wherever you link in the page" or not? --Manorainjan (talk) 12:36, 9 December 2016 (UTC)Reply
I noticed the following while fiddling around with the Usain Bolt article on Wikipedia.
Markup:
* [[wikipedia:4 × 100 metres relay]]
Result:
Strangely the link still works, but the non-breaking spaces do not survive to the rendered link text (opposite in both regards to naive intuition).
It wouldn't be a bad thing if nbsp entity was defined as an alias for regular space in the page name, but the nbsps were preserved in the rendered link text. Either way, the handling of entities in link targets could be better documented. MaxEnt (talk) 02:15, 9 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
We have some 'external links' from our wiki (e.g. https://example.com/wiki/ ) to non-wiki pages on the same server, e.g. [https://example.com/tutorials/index.html Tutorial].
However, the 'refreshLinks.php' script does not update the 'external links' table; and therefore Special:LinkSearch does not work.
Is this expected behavior? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Berbo (talk • contribs) 24 August 2017
Example https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q="Débora%20Maria" ignores URL after first quote, so the link not work. See:
So...? It is a bug. Perhaps Mediawiki need to fix the bug and the HELP pages explain something. --Krauss (talk) 22:12, 22 November 2017 (UTC)Reply
%22 in place of ":
Not sure if this is the correct place for me to post this feature request. If not, please advise me on how to submit this in the correct place.
The feature request is that when clicking on a Redlink (which takes the user to the "Create page" view) the UI should show which pages link to the Redlink. This can make it easier for the user creating the page to find relevant information about the topic they're creating. This feature could also help identify Redlinks which might need disambiguation pages, if Redlinks with different meanings and usages point to the same page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mapmaker345 (talk • contribs) 21 December 2018
I have a PDF file that I have uploaded to my MediaWiki instance. The link [[File:filename.pdf]] links to the file detail page just fine. Is there a way to have a link that opens the file itself in a new tab (not just link to the file detail page)?
In the example there is not a final slash but to achieve the desired result I think there has to be one. Like this:
[[../example2/]]
Seam.us (talk) 17:40, 3 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
Link no longer exists -> This practice is seen in w:Portal:Current events/DateHeader2.
Please realign or suppress. Thanks. -- Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 16:49, 10 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
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