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A search link stores a query in a link that takes you to live search results for that stored search. They're found on user pages and talk pages. They're found on user pages and talk pages. Use one to bring the full feature set of MediaWiki Search, or features of external search engines, to bear on users unfamiliar with their search parameters.
Interproject links: By adding a prefix to another Wikimedia project, internal link style ("prefixed internal link style") can be used to link to a page of another project. A system of short-handed link labels is used to refer to different projects, in the context of interproject linking, as seen within the actual source text.
{} to create a link to a list of all page names which begin with a given word or words {{ in title }} to create a link to a list of all page names which contain a given word or words The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Prefix pages/doc .
If you want to link to an article, but display some other text for the link, you can use a pipe | divider (⇧ Shift+\): [[target page|display text]] You can also link to a specific section of a page using a hash #: [[Target page#Target section|display text]] Here are some examples: [[link]] displays as link
You can "deep link" to a section of an article (or other Wikipedia page), using a hash character (#), then the section's title, with underscore characters (_) replacing spaces.
A permanent link (or permalink) is a link to a specific version of a wiki page.Normal links always lead to the current version of a page, but the permalink leads to the text as it was at the time; the text does not include any edits made since.
Permalinks are usually denoted by text link (i.e. "Permalink" or "Link to this Entry"), but sometimes a symbol may be used. The most common symbol used is the hash sign, or #. However, certain websites employ their own symbol to represent a permalink such as an asterisk, a dash, a pilcrow (¶), a section sign (§), or a unique icon.
The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks, on wikis, or on paper. The feature can be accessed from Meta-Wiki on the special page m:Special:URLShortener. On this page, you will be able ...