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[edit] External links
The easiest way to make a link is to simply type in the full URL for the page you want to link to. If you want to make a link to Google, all you need to do is type:
The MediaWiki will automatically treat this text as a link (as has been done with the URL above) and will display the raw web address, including the "http://" part. In practice, you won't see this format much, as raw URLs are ugly and often give no clue to what the site actually is.
To make the link display something other than the URL, use one square bracket at each end, and if you want the link to appear with text that you specify, add an alternative title after the address separated by a space (not a pipe '|'). So if you want the link to appear as Google search engine, just type:
- [http://www.google.com/ Google search engine]
If you type:
- [http://www.google.com/]
the link will be displayed as a number in brackets, like this: [1]. This format is mostly used for citing sources - it looks like a footnote, so it's best to only use it as such.
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