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For more details see [[WikiSyntax]] and [[Internal Linking Guide]].
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'''''To begin WikiLinking''' navigate to a page you would like to place a link on (e.g. hit your "back" button, search for a page and hit "Find!", etc.) and hit the green "edit" tab.''
  
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'''''For more details''' see [[WikiSyntax]] and [[Internal Linking Guide]].  Feel free to [[Contact Us]] with any questions.''
  
  
 
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* ''[[Special WikiLinks]]''
 
 
== Special WikiLinks ==
 
Make the navigation more attractive for active and passive users of [[WikiWiki|wikis]]:
 
 
 
=== Image Links ===
 
Enrich [[WikiPage]]s with clues for faster orientation:
 
 
 
Regarding [[PageLeveling]] [[Image:EmptyWikiLinking.png]] to [[Image:FullWikiLinking.png]]
 
 
 
*''See [[Image Help]] for more.''
 
 
 
 
 
=== BiLinks ===
 
Help users to not get
 
[http://google.com/search?q=LostInHyperspace LostInHyperspace]. By using immediate [[BiLinks]], we enable navigation in both ways.  Wikis make setup of such qualified links easy, wheras Read-only pages suggest being bilinked by {{GoogleLink|SocialAnnotation|SocialAnnotation}}-systems such as [[DiiGo.com]] or [[TrailFire.com]].
 
BiLinks help to cultivate a sense of mutually enhancing the value of source- and target pages and reducing unfair link activity.
 
 
 
=== Mediated BiLinks ===
 
Create bidirectional connections between two pages, where at least one page is a ReadOnly page. An example is given below in the BiLinks footer of this page.
 
 
 
=== InterWikiLinks ===
 
To learn how to link to other [[WikiWiki|wikis]], take a look at our [[InterWiki]] table, which allows direct links to 140+ [[WikiWiki|wikis]] and websites using a similar link technique.
 
 
 
For the convenience of users and page-authors, it is helpful to have them connected by [[BiLinks]].
 
 
 
=== Google enhanced WikiLinks ===
 
Save time for searching the context; these are links that have an additional eyecatching [[Google]]-search entry icon, like this:
 
 
 
{{GoogleLink|BiLinks|BiLinks}}
 
 
 
=== VideoLinks ===
 
Insert useful community links ''(presenting the SocialBookmarking and SocialAnnotation service of [[Diigo.com]]) via [[YouTube]]-
 
videos: <youtube>KlqfJsmjcOs</youtube>
 
 
 
*''See [[AboutUsVideoSupport]] for instructions.''
 
 
 
 
 
== BiLinks ==
 
<-> [[Page_Leveling]], [[InterWiki]], [[Internal Linking Guide]], [[WikiSyntax]], [[BiLinks]], [[DiiGo.com]], [[TrailFire.com]], [[YouTube]]
 
 
 
<-> [[InterWiki]] ''Mediated BiLink by [[TrailFire.com]] . Both pages have ample TrailFire annotations.''
 
 
 
<-> [[MeatBall:SocialAnnotation]] ''example for (partial) InterWiki BiLink''
 
  
 
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Revision as of 00:13, 30 January 2008

Definition

A WikiLink is a clickable hyper-link from one page on a wiki to another.

To link here at AboutUs, place the title of the page you want to link to in double brackets and save your edit.

For example:


To begin WikiLinking navigate to a page you would like to place a link on (e.g. hit your "back" button, search for a page and hit "Find!", etc.) and hit the green "edit" tab.

For more details see WikiSyntax and Internal Linking Guide. Feel free to Contact Us with any questions.


See also:



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