Wikieducator rich text editor tutorials/New pages and links/Internal links

A link connecting one WikiEducator page with another WikiEducator page is called an internal link, because the link directs the user to a page "internal" to WikiEducator. Creating an internal link is quite similar to creating an external link. The difference being the web address included in the link. Internal links use only part of the full URL.

Determining the page name for an internal wiki page
To create internal links, you will need to know the naming convention for wiki pages. There is an easy way to establish the name of a wiki page in WikiEducator using two simple steps:


 * 1) Open the page you want to link to in a new browser window.
 * 2) Identify the text that appears after the " http://www.wikieducator.org/ " portion of the URL you see in the address bar of your browser at the top of your screen.

This is the name of the WikiEducator page.

Here are a few examples of WikiEducator page names:

Creating an internal link
Creating an internal link to an existing page in WikiEducator, is very similar to creating an external link which we discussed in the previous section. To create an internal link, we again use the Insert/Edit Link button, highlighted below.



Editing the words displayed for the internal link
On some occasions a better description than the actual page name of the internal link is needed, especially when the internal page title is a long and confusing name. To create a descriptive internal link, start in edit mode by typing the descriptive text, for example, "The largest wiki training program in the world". Highlight the text and then click on the Insert/Edit Link button as shown in the Rich Editor toolbar above.

When the Link dialog box appears, enter a wiki page name in the Link text field, like "Learning4Content". (The Link dialog box figure in the previous activity shows the "Learning4Content" wiki page in the Link text field.) The result is a link that is coloured blue and underlined in the edit window. When you preview or save the page the link to the "Learning4Content" page displays using the descriptive text rather than the page name, like this:

The largest wiki training program in the world

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To create an internal link which displays a different title or description than the actual page name in the wiki you should first type the description in the editing window. To create the link, highlight the descriptive text, click on the Insert/Edit Link button and add the page name in the Link text field in the dialog box.

Once you are comfortable with inserting internal links using the Rich Editor toolbar, click on the Wikitext button (located on the top left in the Rich Editor toolbar) to see what the wikitext looks like. You may find it quicker to add internal links using wikitext once you are more comfortable working in the wiki. For information on the wikitext method for adding internal links to your content, see the WikiEducator tutorial on internal links.