Help:Links
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There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:
- internal links to other pages in the wiki
- external links to websites
- inter-wiki links (links to other wikis)
- inter-language links to other language versions of the same wiki
To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already, it is displayed in blue, empty pages are displayed in red. Selflinks to the current page are not transformed in URLs but displayed in bold.
The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).
How to link
| Description | You type | You get |
| Internal link | [[Main Page]] | Main Page |
| Category link | [[:Category:Help]] | Category:Help |
| Piped link | [[Main Page|different text]] | different text |
| Anchor link | [[#External links|Anchor link]] | Anchor link |
| External link | http://mediawiki.org | http://mediawiki.org |
| External link from internal image | [http://targetURL {{Server}}/wiki/images/imagelocation | Internal image |
| External link, different title |
[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] | MediaWiki |
| External link, unnamed |
[http://mediawiki.org] | [1] |
| External link, same host unnamed |
[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename] | [2] |
| Interwiki link | [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]] | Wikipedia:MediaWiki |
| mailto | mailto:info@example.org | mailto:info@example.org |
| mailto unnamed | [mailto:info@example.org] | [3] |
| mailto named | [mailto:info@example.org info] | info |
| redirect | #REDIRECT [[Main Page]] | → Main Page |
External links
VCHILL launch links
Base link
The base url to link to is http://chill.colostate.edu/java/vchill.php. It may be used in the standard wiki external link ways.
Arguments
Arguments are added to the base link using standard PHP notation. This is a series of pairs, each consisting of a name and a value. The arguments are separated from the base link by a question mark (?), and from each other by an ampersand (&). Within each argument pair, the value and name are separated by an equal sign (=). For example: http://chill.colostate.edu/java/vchill.php?arg1=value1&arg2=value2. Valid arguments:
| Description | Argument name | Argument value | Example |
| Open plot windows | plot | Comma separated list of data type names | plot=dBZ,Vel |
| Open ascope windows | ascope | Comma separated list of data type names | ascope=dBZ,Vel |
| Open a bookmark | bookmark | Comma separated category (including prefix) and name of bookmark (including scantype). Be sure to escape any special characters (such as spaces). | bookmark=sys:AMS_SEA,VAD_winds%20PPI |
