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Wiki University Wikitext--Links

Links
External Link   Name seperated with space:

Wikipedia

Internal Link   Name seperated with pipe:

Missouri

Linking to Headers:

Missouri Genealogy

AND

Additional Resources (test this)

E-mail links:

[mailto:other site@browser.com Site Name]

Show example of an e-mail link on a page

Fixing Broken Links:

1. External link with no name

Just fix it by adding a space

This is how it should be entered: FamilySearch

2. Another example of link with no name

Just fix it by adding a space and a name

This is how it should be entered: FamilySearch

3. External link with URL as the name

https://familysearch.org Take the extra URL out and add a space and name

This is how it should be entered: FamilySearch

4. External link shows in HTML coding

FamilySearch     The error: the external link was entered as HTML coding, not Wikitext. Correction: place the URL inside the proper Wikitext external link brackets.

This is how it should be entered: Familysearch

5. Using a space instead of a pipe Missouri, United States Genealogy Missouri

NOTICE the link is red. This means the link will take you to a page that does not exist. This is how it was entered

Missouri, United States Genealogy Missouri      The error: there was no pipe between the page name and the name of the link if it was different than the page name. Correction: place a pipe between the page name and the name of the link

This is how it should be entered: Missouri

6. Not having enough square brackets Missouri Genealogy|Missouri]

NOTICE this time the link is not even red. The browser thinks this coding is a normal sentence. This was how it was entered

[Missouri, United States Genealogy|Missouri]   The error: there was only one set of square brackets used instead of two opening and closing square brackets. Correction: add another set of square brackets to the single opening and closing square brackets.

This is how it should be entered:   Missouri

7. Wrong kind of brackets

Template:Missouri, United States Genealogy NOTICE the link is in red which means the page does not exist. NOTICE the word template: with a colon. This indicates that the browser thinks this is a template. We will talk about templates in a later lesson. Here is what the patron entered:

The error: curly brackets were used instead of square brackets. Correction: replace the curly brackets with square brackets.

This is how it should be entered:

Missouri

Lesson # 12:Wiki University Wikitext--Image Links


 * Making an image into either an external or an internal link: