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However, please familiarise yourself with the below APL Wiki-specific guidelines before making any major edits. | However, please familiarise yourself with the below APL Wiki-specific guidelines before making any major edits. | ||
== Links to Wikipedia == | |||
Linking to a [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] page is more like an internal link than an external one: both technically, because it uses MediaWiki just like APLWiki, and conceptually, because Wikipedia also has encyclopedic information on a variety of topics. And in fact Wikipedia links are supported by our [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Internal_links internal link] syntax. This form is preferred because it is displayed with a "W" as an indication to the reader. Write an internal link as it would appear on Wikipedia, but put <code>wikipedia:</code> in front. | |||
A Wikipedia link always needs to be given displayed text with <code>|</code>, because otherwise it will appear with that <code>wikipedia:</code> in the link, a very cluttered display! However, when editing there is a shortcut that can often be used. Writing the <code>|</code> character with no text afterwards will strip <code>wikipedia:</code> and any trailing material in parentheses from the display, so that for example <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:APL (programming language)|]]</nowiki></code> displays as [[wikipedia:APL (programming language)|APL]]. | |||
== Mentioning subjects that have their own page == | == Mentioning subjects that have their own page == | ||
It is fine for a page to have a section about a subject that also has its own page. When that happens, begin the section with <code><nowiki>{{Main|subject}}</nowiki></code> where <code>subject</code> is the target page title. Don't include double brackets (as a page link) — it is done for you. | It is fine for a page to have a section about a subject that also has its own page. When that happens, begin the section with <code><nowiki>{{Main|subject}}</nowiki></code> where <code>subject</code> is the target page title. Don't include double brackets (as a page link) — it is done for you. | ||