Help:Linking
This is a basic guide to linking your page. It contains several of the most common & useful forms of links you can use, so you can get your pages connected with no trouble!
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The First Steps
- When you're ready to edit a page, click on the edit tab at the top of the page. This will bring you to the editing window.
- There is a coloured bar of buttons which appears when you click on edit. These are are shortcuts to common things such as adding pictures or bolding text. This bar is your friend. It looks like this:
- When you're done editing, click on the button Save page at the bottom of the window. Don't worry if you've made a mistake, you can go back and fix it at any time!
Internal Links
- To link to another page in mindcloud.org, use a pair of double square brackets:
[[name of page]]
e.g. to link to the page 'Tristan Miller', type:
[[Tristan Miller]]
The result: Tristan Miller
NB This is how you make new pages
- To link to another page in mindcloud.org, but to have a different name appear in the page you're linking from:
[[real name of page|name you want to appear]]
e.g. to link to the page 'Tristan Miller', but only want 'Tristan' to appear, type:
[[Tristan Miller|Tristan]]
The result: Tristan
- Syntax - Case: The case (i.e. uppercase or lower case) of the first letter in the page title doesn't matter - however all the rest do
e.g. to get to the page "Tristan Miller" the following work:
[[Tristan Miller]] and [[tristan Miller]]
BUT [[Tristan miller]] or [[Tristan MillEr]] don't work
- Syntax - Underscore: When a page is created with a space character in the title e.g. "Tristan Miller", the actual webpage address will have an underscore instead of the space character. When linking it does not matter if you use the underscore or a space character.
e.g. Both [[Tristan Miller]] AND [[Tristan_Miller]] will link to the same page.
Wikipedia Links
This is useful if your writings contain concepts that are better explained in an encyclopedia-why not just link it to the knowledge that's already there?
- To link to a topic/page in Wikipedia, type:
[[Wikipedia:whatever topic you want|how you want the link to look]]
e.g. To link to the Wikipedia page on Albert Einstein, but just have 'Einstein' appear in the link, type:
[[Wikipedia:Albert Einstein|Einstein]]
The result: Einstein
External Links
- To put in link to a page outside of the mindcloud wiki, use single square brackets as follows:
[http://whatever.whatever.whatever How you want the link to appear]
Note that this time, instead of a '|', a space separates the URL and the text to appear on the page
e.g. to link to the front page of mindcloud.org, but to have it appear simply as 'Awesome', type:
[http://proto.mindcloud.org Awesome]
The result: Awesome
Pictures
- To plant a picture on a page, simply click on the Embedded Image button
, which will add the following wiki text
[[image:Example.jpg]]
e.g.
[[Image:Chicki.jpg]]
The result: 
Note that the Embedded Image button will only work for images uploaded to the wiki (you can upload an image to the wiki by clicking on the Upload File link on the sidebar.
Finally...
If you ever get stuck, or want to know how to do something on a wiki page, just take a look at how others have done it. All you have to do is click on the 'Edit' or 'View Source' tab at the top of the page. You can also check out the super resource at the Mediawiki website
Also, there is another short guide which explains the finer processes of editing your page. Between this and investigating other people's pages, you should find everything you need to know.
Have fun!
