How to link between wiki pages (1st attempt)

Duration: 1 minute and 50 seconds

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Genre: Instructional

Producer: Alex Poole

Views: 72 (13 embedded)

Posted by: alexpoole on Nov 13, 2009

Shows the best and quickest way to link between wiki pages by typing the name of the page enclosed in square brackets.

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So how do you link from one page to another on the Wiki?
Well, the simplest way to do this is to
just go into the page to edit it,
(Click on the edit link)
Scroll down the page a bit so you can see the wiki markup
and click in the page where you want your wiki link to be
and then type an open square bracket
and then just type the name of the page you want to go to...
So I know there's a page called
"Screencast example"
and then I type a closing square bracket
and then I hit 'save'.
Before I do that, I select 'Minor change'' because it's only a small change.
Save the page,
and then you see the link here.
Click on the link and we go to the page.
The really good thing about this way of linking from page to page
is that if I actually change the name of the page
to "A screencasting example"...
and then go back to the page we were linking from,
you can see that the link text has actually changed.
So this really saves you a lot of time and hassle.
Now, this won't happen if you simply grab the address from the address bar
and put that in as the link.
Sure, it'll get you to the page,
but if you change the name of the page, you won't get this extra benefit.
So it's best to do it by typing the name of the page, with square brackets around it.

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