Editing Basic Formatting (section)

=== External Links ===

To create an external link, usually to a page at a different website, enclose the URL followed by space and the link text in single square brackets (see examples below). When you save or preview the page, you will see a link rendered slightly differently than an internal wikilink. It may be a different color and/or be followed by an arrow icon to show that it may lead to another site.
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{| class="wikitable"
!style="width:15%"|Description
!style="width:45%"|You type
!style="width:40%"|You get

|-
| External link with specified link text
| <pre>[https://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]</pre>
| [https://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]

|-
| External link
| <pre>[https://mediawiki.org]</pre>

This is what happens if you omit the link text.
Multiple links of this type on the same page are numbered sequentially.
|[https://mediawiki.org]

|-
| Bare external link
|<pre>https://mediawiki.org</pre>
URLs beginning with "<code>http://</code>" and "<code>https://</code>" are automatically linked, even when no brackets are used.
|https://mediawiki.org

|-
| <span id="How to avoid auto-links">Avoiding auto-linked URLs</span>
|<syntaxhighlight lang=html><nowiki>https://mediawiki.org</nowiki></syntaxhighlight>
|<nowiki>https://mediawiki.org</nowiki>

|-
| [[W:Protocol-relative URL|Protocol-relative]] external link
|<pre>
[//en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]

[//en.wikipedia.org //en.wikipedia.org]
</pre>
The link will be HTTP or HTTPS depending on the protocol of the page currently being viewed (which could be different for different users).
This is only supported inside of square brackets <code><nowiki>[ ]</nowiki></code>.
Using "<code>//en.wikipedia.org</code>" by itself ''does not'' result in a link.
|
[//en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]

[//en.wikipedia.org //en.wikipedia.org]

|-
| External link to the current server
|<pre>https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename</pre>
|https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename

|-
| External link to other host passing the pagename
|<pre>https://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}</pre>

See also: [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#URL_encoded_page_names|URL encoded page names]], {{ll|Manual:PAGENAMEE encoding}}
|https://google.com/search?q=Links

|-
| Mailto link
|<pre>[mailto:info@example.org email me]</pre>
|[mailto:info@example.org email me]

|-
| Mailto named with subject line and body
|<pre>[mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&amp;body=Body%20Text info]</pre>
|[mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&bod
External Links
To create an external link, usually to a page at a different website, enclose the URL followed by space and the link text in single square brackets (see examples below). When you save or preview the page, you will see a link rendered slightly differently than an internal wikilink. It may be a different color and/or be followed by an arrow icon to show that it may lead to another site.

y=Body%20Text info]

|-
| Custom URI
|<pre>[skype:echo123 call me]</pre>

Any URI you wish to add needs to be first declared through  {{ll|Manual:$wgUrlProtocols|$wgUrlProtocols}}.
(This example is not enabled on mediawiki.org)
|[skype:echo123 call me]

|}
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