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= Linking Rules =
 * Targets can be:
  * Local Pages:
   * either absolute: '''`a page name`''' or '''`main page/sub page`'''
   * or relative: '''`/some sub page`''' or '''`../some sister page`'''
  * Interwiki Pages: '''`OtherWiki:a pagename there`'''
  * URLs: '''`http://server/path`'''
  * Pages and URLs may include an anchor ('''`...#anchorname`''').
 * Use '''`[[target]]`''' if you want to ''link'' to some target object.
 * Use '''`{{target}}`''' if you want to ''transclude'' (embed/include/show) some target object (often an image).
 * Use '''`target|text`''' instead of just '''`target`''' to make it use the given text (e.g. as link text for links or as alt text for images).
 * Use '''`target|text|params`''' instead of just '''`target`''' to give additional params.

 * Use '''`target|{{imagetarget}}`''' if you want to show an image instead of a text.

URLs, interwiki pages, email addresses and CamelCase pagenames are recognized as targets even without using brackets.

= Quick Reference =
||'''Hyperlink'''              ||'''Syntax'''                                ||'''Comment'''                 ||
||internal link                ||`WikiName`                                  ||Camel``Case page name         ||
||internal free link           ||`[[free link]]`                             ||any page name                 ||
||internal link to sub page    ||`/SubPage` or `[[/sub page]]`               ||                              ||
||internal link to sister page ||`../SisterPage` or `[[../sister|link text]]` ||                             ||
||internal link with linktext  ||`[[SomePage|some Page]]`                    ||                              ||
||link to attachment           ||`[[attachment:a image.png]]`                ||links to attachment image     ||
||interwiki link               ||`Otherwiki:somepage`                        ||requires uppercase wikiname   ||
||interwiki free link          ||`[[otherwiki:somepage]]`                    ||any wikiname in the map works ||
||external link                ||`http://example.net`                        ||                              ||
||external link with linktext  ||`[[http://example.net|example site]]`       ||                              ||
||border of internal link      ||{{{WikiName``s}}}                  ||2 backticks - for when a !WikiName ends in the middle of a word||
||avoid an internal link       ||`!WikiName`                                 ||configurable function         ||

||'''Transclusion/Embedding'''||'''Syntax'''                                ||'''Comment'''                       ||
||embed an attached graphics  ||`{{attachment:a image.png}}`                ||show attachment image               ||
||embed an attached graphics  ||`{{attachment:a image.png|alt text}}`       ||show attachment image, with alt text||
||embed an attached graphics  ||`{{attachment:a image.png|alt text|align="position"}}` ||shows attached image, with ''position'' can be '''top''', '''middle''', '''bottom''', '''right''' or '''left'''   ||
||external graphics           ||`{{http://example.net/image.png}}`          ||shows target image                  ||
||external graphics           ||`{{http://example.net/image.png|alt text}}` ||shows target image, with alt text   ||
||external graphics           ||`{{http://example.net/image.png|alt text|align="position"}}` ||shows target image, with ''position'' can be '''top''', '''middle''', '''bottom''', '''right''' or '''left'''   ||
= Explanations =

== URLs ==
If you enter URLs into normal text, there is the problem of detecting what belongs to the URL and what not. There are four ways to force the ending of an URL:
 * put a space after the URL,
 * use the Wiki:SixSingleQuotes escaping,
 * use the double bracketed URL syntax.

The supported URL schemes are: `http`, `https`, `ftp`, `file` and some others. The administrator of your wiki can extend the supported schemes by using the {{{url_schemas}}} variable (see HelpOnConfiguration).

In addition to the standard schemes, there are MoinMoin-specific ones: `attachment` and `drawing`, these are related to file attachments and are explained on HelpOnActions/AttachFile.
== Spaces ==
You can always use the double brackets (or double braces) syntax to use page or file names with spaces.

This will even work for interwiki links, if the target wiki understands standard url quoting (space will become %20).

== Anchors ==
To ''insert'' anchors into a page you need the ''Anchor'' macro (see HelpOnMacros): `<<Anchor(anchorname)>>`, where "anchorname" is the actual identifier of the anchor.

To link to an anchor on the same wiki page use `[[#anchorname]]` or `[[#anchorname|label text]]`.

To link to an anchor on another wiki page write `[[PageName#anchorname]]` or `[[PageName#anchorname|label text]]`, where "Page``Name" is the name of the other page and "anchorname" is the identifier of the anchor on that page.

/!\ On some Wikis, a link to the page RecentChanges might refer to the same page as this link: [[recentchanges]]. This is especially true for Windows and Mac OS X systems because they are not case-sensitive normally.

== Preventing Automatically Generated Links ==

To keep a word like Page``Name from automatically being turned into a link, use {{{Page``Name}}}.  (The problem with doing this is that it will prevent a simple search for the word "Wiki``Name" from matching {{{Wiki``Name}}} in a page, due to the inserted characters.)

You can also suppress WikiName linking by putting an exclamation mark (''bang'') before the WikiName, i.e. `!WikiName`. This is available by default, but can be disabled with the configuration option `bang_meta = False`.  Using this method will not interfere with most searches for the escaped `WikiName`, with the exception of certain quoted phrases and regular expressions.

To prevent automatic URL linking, use either {{{`http://...`}}} or `{{{http://...}}}`.

== Using link parameters ==
Sometimes you may want to give additional parameters for a link, influencing how it looks like, how it behaves and how exactly it links to the target - this is what the '''params''' part of `[[target|text|params]]` is for.

=== Setting attributes of the <a> tag ===
Available attributes: class, title, target, accesskey (see some html reference if you want to know what they mean).

Example: `[[http://moinmo.in/|MoinMoin Wiki|class=green dotted,accesskey=1]]`

Renders as: [[http://moinmo.in/|MoinMoin Wiki|class=green dotted,accesskey=1]]

(!) Pressing the access key should jump to that link target (for Firefox 2.x and the example above it is Alt-Shift-1).

=== Creating a query string for the target URL ===
What is possible for this depends on the target site.

Example: `[[MoinMoin:MoinMoinWiki|MoinMoin Wiki|&action=diff,&rev1=1,&rev2=2]]`

Renders as: [[MoinMoin:MoinMoinWiki|MoinMoin Wiki|&action=diff,&rev1=1,&rev2=2]]

(!) Please remember:
 * If you want to give a key=value item for the query string, don't forget the ampersand (&).
 * Giving query string items does not work when you give a URL as target (but for links to pages or attachments).
 * If you give a URL as target, you can include a query string directly in that target, no need for params.
 * You don't need to encode and url_quote the query string stuff, moin does this automatically for you.

== Other stuff ==

For more information on the possible markup, see HelpOnEditing. For details on how to link to subpages, see HelpOnEditing/SubPages.

<<FootNote>>

= Examples =
== Markup ==
{{{
 * http://moinmo.in/
 * [[http://moinmo.in/]]
 * [[http://moinmo.in/|MoinMoin Homepage]]
 * InterWiki
  * Self:InterWiki
  * MeatBall:InterWiki
  * [[MeatBall:InterWiki|InterWiki page on MeatBall]]
  * [[MoinMoin:page with spaces]] (doesn't exist)
 * email
  * user@example.com
  * mailto:user@example.com?subject=test
  * [[mailto:user@example.com?subject=test|Email me]]
 * [[InterWiki|InterWiki page in this wiki]]
 * [[#anchorname|Link to anchor on this page]]
 * [[OtherPage#anchorname|Link to anchor on other page in current wiki with label text]]
 * {{http://moinmo.in/moin_static/common/moinmoin.png}}
 * {{http://moinmo.in/moin_static/common/moinmoin.png|moinmoin logo}}
}}}

== Display ==
 * http://moinmo.in/
 * [[http://moinmo.in/]]
 * [[http://moinmo.in/|MoinMoin Homepage]]
 * InterWiki
  * Self:InterWiki
  * MeatBall:InterWiki
  * [[MeatBall:InterWiki|InterWiki page on MeatBall]]
  * [[MoinMoin:page with spaces]] (doesn't exist)
 * email
  * user@example.com
  * mailto:user@example.com?subject=test
  * [[mailto:user@example.com?subject=test|Email me]]
 * [[InterWiki|InterWiki page in this wiki]]
 * [[#anchorname|Link to anchor on this page]]
 * [[OtherPage#anchorname|Link to anchor on other page in current wiki with label text]]
 * {{http://moinmo.in/moin_static/common/moinmoin.png}}
 * {{http://moinmo.in/moin_static/common/moinmoin.png|moinmoin logo}}

= If you used moin before... =
Don't worry, it is much easier and better predictable now:
 * It is always two brackets (for links) or two curly braces (for transclusion/embedding) now.
 * Because of that, macros use '''`<<MacroName(...)>>`''' syntax now.
 * Use brackets or braces syntax if some target has blanks chars (no _ and no %20 any more!).
 * Use the pipe char (|) to separate target and text (and params).
 * '''`wiki:`''' is gone, just use interwiki without it.
 * '''`inline:`''' is now '''`{{attachment:...}}`'''.
 * Interwiki links now only use `WikiName:PageName` (''not:'' `WikiName/PageName`)
 * It has less magic now (and will just do what you say!):
  * Underscore (_) is a normal character and different from blank.
  * If you want an underscore, use an underscore - if you want a blank, use a blank.
  * If you link to an image, it will just link to an image (not show/embed it!).
 * For early moin 1.6 users: no quoting with double-quotes any more, use outer double brackets/braces to quote.

(!) This markup is inspired by creole wiki markup standard (and is also quite similar to what mediawiki engine uses).