DJBWiki:Tutorial (External links)
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Avoid using an external link when it's possible to accomplish the same thing with an internal link to a DJBWiki article.
The best type of link for most situations includes a description after the address. This description appears as the title of the link e.g. The official Star Wars site. To create a link like this just type a link and the description, separated by a space and enclosed in single square brackets:
- [http://www.starwars.com Official ''Star Wars'' site]
Other ways to link
There are two other ways to create an external link.
Enclosing the link in single square brackets without providing a description...
- [http://www.google.com]
Finally, you may simply type in the full URL for the page you wish to link to:
The wiki will automatically treat this text as a link (as has been done with the URL above) and will display the raw web address, including the "http://" part. It is recommended that you don't use this format much, as raw URLs are ugly and often give no clue to what the site actually is.Linking to Wookieepedia Articles
It is possible to link Wookieepedia articles without using a standard external link. All you need to do is prefix the link with "starwars:" and other wise treat it as a Wiki link, e.g. [[starwars:Ar'krai|Ar'krai]] results in...