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===Links===
===Links===
From [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links Wikimedia]:
:: There are five types<nowiki>*</nowiki> of hypertext links in MediaWiki:
<blockquote>
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Internal_links Internal links] to other pages in the same wiki (commonly called "wikilinks")
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#External_links External links] to pages at other websites
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#External_links_to_internal_pages External links] to internal pages in the same wiki
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Interwiki_links Interwiki links] to other websites using special prefixes registered in advance
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Interlanguage_links Interlanguage links] to other wikis registered as different language versions of the current wiki
</blockquote>
:: <nowiki>*</nowiki> list does not include [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Categories category links] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Images file links], which are used to place pages into categories and display images or other media files, respectively.
For the purposes of this wiki, these few examples should get your through most of your editing:
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! You type !! What it does
! You type !! What it does
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<div class="tf-note"><span class="tf-lbl">Note</span><br>A '''red link''' means the page does not exist yet. That is not a mistake; it is an invitation to create it. A '''blue link''' means the page is already there.</div>
<div class="tf-note"><span class="tf-lbl">Note</span><br>A '''red link''' means the page does not exist yet. That is not a mistake; it is an invitation to create it. A '''blue link''' means the page is already there.</div>
For more complex linking, and some nity-gritty technical details, MediaWiki's detailed lists of the various linking methods provide everything you'll need beyond the list above.


===Headings and sections===
===Headings and sections===