Help:Linking within wiki articles

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A Wiki link is an easily formatted link to other articles within the wiki or external to the wiki site.

Examples

You can either use the name of an article as a link, or you can pipe the link so that text appears that is different from the article's title. Links to external sites are formatted--and appear--slightly differently.

Main namespace articles

	Example	Results
Basic link to article title (see capitalization info below).	[[wiki]]	wiki
Plurals and other suffixes adjacent to the link display as part of the link.	[[wiki]]s	wikis
Adjacent suffixes display as part of the link, but not prefixes.	re[[wiki]]fication	rewikification
Piping: Display the text after the vertical bar as the link text.	[[wiki|some wiki software]]	some wiki software

Other namespace articles

	Example	Results
Full namespace title displayed as link.	[[Help:Adding an article]]	Help:Adding an article
Shortcut to suppress namespace when displaying link.	[[Help:Adding an article|]]	Adding a new article

Subheadings within articles

	Example	Results
Use HTML notation for a named link within a document; the subheading of the article is the link. (You do not need to encode spaces or special characters.)	[[Softimage XSI extensions#<light> extra]]	Softimage XSI extensions#<light> extra

URLs

	Example	Results
URL displayed as link ("external link" icon appears automatically for all URL links).	http://www.collada.org	http://www.collada.org
URL displayed as automatically incremented number; particularly useful for references within an article.	[http://www.collada.org] [http://www.khronos.org]	[1] [2]
Text following URL displayed as link.	[http://www.collada.org Collada web site]	Collada web site

Capitalization

The wiki software is somewhat sensitive to capitalization:

• To make it easier to use article titles in sentences, the first character of a title is not case sensitive; for example, wiki and Wiki go to the same article; so do runtime database and Runtime database.
• The rest of the letters are case sensitive. For example, COLLADA and coLLada do not go to the same article; neither do runtime database and Runtime Database.