Editing Editing (section)

==Links==
Links are important on wikis to help readers navigate your site.

===Internal links===
You can extensively cross-reference wiki pages using internal links. You can add links to existing titles, and also to titles you think ought to exist in future.

To make a link to another page on the same wiki, just put the title in double square brackets. Species pages have the naming convention '''Genus_species''' so they can be referenced like that, but that puts an underscore in the name e.g.
 <nowiki>[[</nowiki>Lepidozamia_peroffskyana]]
results in [[Lepidozamia_peroffskyana]]

To get rid of the underscore, put a '''|''' after the page name, and then you can refer to the species however you want e.g.
 <nowiki>[[Lepidozamia_peroffskyana|L. peroffskyana]]</nowiki>
gives [[Lepidozamia_peroffskyana|L. peroffskyana]]
 <nowiki>[[Lepidozamia_peroffskyana|Lepidozamia peroffskyana]]</nowiki>
results in [[Lepidozamia_peroffskyana|Lepidozamia peroffskyana]] and 
 <nowiki>'''''[[Lepidozamia_peroffskyana|Lepidozamia peroffskyana]]'''''</nowiki>
causes '''''[[Lepidozamia_peroffskyana|Lepidozamia peroffskyana]]'''''

To refer to a genus page, put ''':Category:''' (note the ''':''' at the start and end of the word Category (this is very important)), then a '''|''' and the genus name e.g.
 <nowiki>'''''[[:Category:Lepidozamia|Lepidozamia]]'''''</nowiki>
results in '''''[[:Category:Lepidozamia|Lepidozamia]]'''''

If you want to make a link to the [[Main Page]], it would be <nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki>.

When you want to use the plural of an article title (or add any other suffix) for your link, you can add the extra letters directly outside the double square brackets.

For example, you would write:

:<tt>Add questions to the Wikia for <nowiki>[[quiz]]zes</nowiki>.</tt>

It would appear as:

:Add questions to the Wikia for [[quiz]]zes. (the link will be red if this page does not yet exist)

===Interwiki links===
To link to another Wikia, you can use its title followed by a colon and the article name, instead of using the full URL.

For example, the Creatures Wiki home page is at [[Creatures:Main Page]], which can be typed as
:<nowiki>[[Creatures:Main Page]]</nowiki>
:rather than as <nowiki>http://creatures.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page</nowiki>

This style of link works for any wiki in the interwiki map, not just for Wikia. See the Central Wikia page at [[Wikia:Help:Interwiki link]].

===External links===
If you want to link to a site outside of Wikia, you may just type the full URL for the page you want to link to.

:http://www.google.com/

It is often more useful to make the link display something other than the URL, so use '''one''' square bracket at each end, with the alternative title after the full URL address, separated by a '''space''' (''not'' a pipe). So if you want the link to appear as [http://www.google.com/ Google search engine], just type:
:<tt><nowiki>[http://www.google.com/ Google search engine]</nowiki></tt>

To get a link to [http://www.kew.org/ Kew Gardens], enter:
:<tt><nowiki>[http://www.kew.com/ Kew Gardens]</nowiki></tt>

To get a link to a google search for a species, e.g.
[http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Dypsis%20lutescens%22&num=10&sa=Google+Search Dypsis lutescens]
substitute the genus for GENUS, and species for SPECIES in the following:
:<tt><nowiki>[http://www.google.com/search?q=%22GENUS%20SPECIES%22&num=10&sa=Google+Search GENUS SPECIES]</nowiki></tt>

===Redirects===
To redirect automatically from one page to another, type <nowiki>#REDIRECT</nowiki> and then put in brackets the name of the page to be redirected to. 

For example, you could redirect from "Cats" to "Cat". That way, anyone typing either version in the search box will automatically go to "Cat".