Help:Links

We're able to create links inside articles, to either other articles or categories or to external sites. Linking is easy and very convenient, much more than with HTML.

Basic links
Internal links are links to other articles on the Twinsuniverse Wiki. To add a link to another article, simply put "" before the text, and "" after it, or click on the button on the edit toolbar (see Help:Editing). Example: Twinsen &rarr; Twinsen

Remember linking to internal pages like this is case sensitive, except for the first letter. So: Bob same page as bob Jerome Baldino different page as Jerome baldino

However, we could set up a redirect page to accept different spellings.

The Pipe Technique
If you want to create a link to an article with (possibly totally) different text than it's name, you can do so with a method called, according to Wikipedia, the Pipe trick. To use this method, all you have to do is separate the title from the text, using the | character. Example: Twinsen is the hero of the planet &rarr; Twinsen is the hero of the planet

Basically, remember the following order: Text to appear in article. This makes it possible to modify the link's text to better fit the context, or to make it better readable in it: click here &rarr; click here

Linking to a specific section
Linking to a specific section is done using the # sign, separating the article title from the section title. Example: School of Magic &rarr; School of Magic

Of cource you can use the | sign in this case as well. Example: The role of the School of Magic &rarr; The role of the School of Magic

To only link to a specific section inside the same article, just use a # sign and the section's title as the target. Example: &rarr;

Category links
Normally, creating a category link on a page, adds your page to the category. Example:

But sometimes you'd want to create a link without actually adding the page to the category. To do this, you only need to add a colon before the word "Category", like this: Category:Twinsun &rarr; Category:Twinsun

In this case the category link works just like any other basic link. So the pipe trick works as well: Planet &rarr; Planet

Linking to the Magicball Network
For quick linking to the Magicball Network Forums, there are two easy to use templates, Template:Thread and Template:Post. Preferably, use those two when linking to the forum. If the address of the MBN ever changes, we'd only need to change the template and all links will be automatically changed accordingly.