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7 Components: the Function Pages - Developers

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a URL<br />

Signing entries<br />

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it accordingly. In links to <strong>the</strong> WWW, a special character appears behind<br />

<strong>the</strong> text. It indicates to <strong>the</strong> user that he or she will leave <strong>the</strong> wiki<br />

using <strong>the</strong> respective link. External links of this type are not limited to<br />

<strong>the</strong> WWW with HTTP protocol. MediaWiki also understands https,<br />

ftp and mailto links, and assigns <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong>ir own corresponding symbols.<br />

Placing a URL in a text makes <strong>the</strong> text harder to read and is thus<br />

not advisable (except when <strong>the</strong> exact address is <strong>the</strong> subject of observation).<br />

That is why MediaWiki offers two ways to format external<br />

links. The first is to simply surround <strong>the</strong>m in brackets. Such links are<br />

consecutively numbered on <strong>the</strong> page from top to bottom. This is<br />

similar to <strong>the</strong> quotation procedure in scientific texts; however, it also<br />

does not facilitate smooth reading. If you wish to provide a description<br />

for your link, simply add <strong>the</strong> description following a space behind<br />

<strong>the</strong> URL in brackets:<br />

[http://www.wiki-tools.de·The page about <strong>the</strong> ↵<br />

book]<br />

More than one word is permitted. In this way, external links can be<br />

embedded in <strong>the</strong> text flow.<br />

Now we can fill <strong>the</strong> material page of “Flying Sparks” with content:<br />

== Links ==<br />

* The [http://www.humanitycouncil.de· ↵<br />

Humanity Council] publishes development report<br />

...<br />

You can now link directly to <strong>the</strong>se targets on <strong>the</strong> start page:<br />

== Statement ==<br />

Tribes without Fire ...<br />

* [[Material#Links|secondary links]]<br />

It has become standard style in discussions to sign entries with <strong>the</strong><br />

date and indication of <strong>the</strong> user's page, so that <strong>the</strong>y can be allocated to<br />

participants. To do this, MediaWiki uses <strong>the</strong> abbreviation<br />

~~~~<br />

When an article is saved for <strong>the</strong> first time, this code is translated into<br />

a link to <strong>the</strong> internal wiki page of <strong>the</strong> user and <strong>the</strong> current time. From<br />

6 Multi-Page Structures

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