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  '''['''<nowiki>http://oni.bungie.org/forum/ here is our forum</nowiki>''']'''

The result is: [http://oni.bungie.org/forum/ here is our forum]

  Here '''['''<nowiki>http://oni.bungie.org/forum/</nowiki>''']''' is our forum

The result is: here [http://oni.bungie.org/forum/] is our forum. However, this is not part of our usual style on this wiki. You should always label your links.

:Here is our forum: http://oni.bungie.org/forum/

(2a) Write the following to get an ''intrawiki'' link to one of our own pages:

(2b) Write following to get an ''intrawiki'' link which is labeled with some text:

This kind of link (2a/2b) spares you from writing '''<nowiki>http://wiki.oni2.net/</nowiki>OniSplit#Download_links'''

 

If you want to link to something that isn't a section, use the [[Template:Anchor|<nowiki>{{Template:Anchor}}</nowiki>]].

 

 

 

For this to work you need some unformatted or simple formatted text '''before''' the first section <nowiki>(==section==)</nowiki>. Previewing of images is possible but not documented. (See chapter previews.)

 

Similarly, you can use the H template to show some shortened custom text.

<nowiki>[[link|{{H|hover text|normal text}}]]</nowiki>

You can link to pages on [[wikt:Wiktionary:Main_Page|Wiktionary]], the [[wp:Main_Page|English Wikipedia]] and [[metawikimedia:Main_Page|Meta-Wiki]] as if they were pages of our own wiki, using the shortcuts '''<nowiki>wiktionary:</nowiki>''', '''<nowiki>wikipedia:</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>metawikimedia:</nowiki>'''. When you make an interwiki link, the outbound link icon changes from an upward arrow to a sideward arrow to show that you are linking to a fellow wiki, not some random web site.

An example of using an interwiki prefix would be '''<nowiki>[[wikipedia:Test]]</nowiki>''', which produces [[wikipedia:Test]] (you can supply alternate text using the syntax '''<nowiki>[[wikipedia:Test|Test]]</nowiki>''' to get rid of that pesky prefix in the final markup: [[wikipedia:Test|Test]]). These prefixes accept language codes, so you could use the markup '''<nowiki>[[wikipedia:de:Test|Test]]</nowiki>''' to link to the German article [[wikipedia:de:Test|Test]] (the URL will appear wrong, but Wikipedia knows what it means).

To place an image, you type its name inside of double brackets, preceded by "Image:", e.g. <code><nowiki>[[Image:TXMPPOSTER3.png]]</nowiki></code>. This markup will be replaced by the named image. If you only want to link to the page of an image, you type <code><nowiki>[[:Image:TXMPPOSTER3.png]]</nowiki></code> to get [[:Image:TXMPPOSTER3.png]].

Categories work the same way. Every page on the wiki should be placed into at least one category using this kind of markup at the end of the page: <code><nowiki>[[Category:Policies and documentation]]</nowiki></code>. This will cause the name of the category to appear at the bottom of the page. However, if you only want to link to a category page, not place the current page into that category, you use the same technique as linking to an image page: <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Policies and documentation]]</nowiki></code> gives you [[:Category:Policies and documentation]]. To see what categories are available, you can look at the [[Site Map]].

Text can be "transcluded" from one place on the wiki to another using <nowiki>{{this markup}}</nowiki>. Transclusion means that whenever the original text is updated, so is the text inserted in place of the page link enclosed in double-braces. Transclusion is most commonly used in order to place templates on a page. Here's [[:Category:Templates|a list of templates]].  Pick one, and then click on "What links here" once you're on the template page.  You should see a list of pages, each one probably followed by "(transclusion)". Look at the wiki code for those pages to see how the template's text or markup was placed into the page.

Templates are not a special kind of wiki page; they're simply a term that we use to refer to pages that are meant to be transcluded. Templates usually provide a standardized format for something like a [[:Template:Chapters|table]], or else they supply a standard [[:Template:Cleanup|header]] or [[:Template:OBD_File_Footer|footer]]. You should familiarize yourself with the templates if you plan to do a decent amount of editing; they are not only time-savers, they also help editors make their edits fit in with OniGalore standards, and make it easier to change large amounts of wiki text at once.