Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the Mercury Project
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Links are important in RixWiki articles.
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Internal links
One of the things that makes RixWiki useful (and addictive) is extensive cross-listing by internal links. These easily-created links allow users to access information related to the article they're reading.
When to link
The easiest way to learn when to link is to look at existing articles for examples. If you're trying to decide whether to make a link or not, ask yourself "If I were reading this article, would the link be useful to me?"
How to link
When you want to make a link to another RixWiki page (called a wiki link) you have to put it in double square brackets, like this:
- [[Sandbox]]
For example, if you want to make a link to, say, the RixWiki:Contributing to RixWiki page, it would be:
- [[RixWiki:Contributing to RixWiki]]
(The 'RixWiki:' part signifies that the target page is in the RixWiki namespace, rather than the Main namespace, where normal articles go.)
Also remember that in RixWiki the links are created automatically, so if you put double square brackets around a word, it becomes a link, and because of that you have to be careful about disambiguation.
If you want to use words other than the article title as the text of the link, you can add an alternative name by adding after the pipe "|" divider (SHIFT + BACKSLASH on English-layout and other keyboards).
For example, if you wanted to make a link to this page's sandbox, but wanted it to say "my text" you would write it as such:
- To view the article, [[RixWiki:Tutorial (RixWiki links)/sandbox|my text]]...
It would appear as:
- To view the article, my text...
but would link to the sandbox.
Alternate endings
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:
- Marine mammals such as [[dolphin]]s....
- Intercontinental [[ship]]ping...
It would appear as:
Linking dates
The articles on the Mercury project have extensive links to a chronology article to aid researchers to get a picture of the sequence of changes to the spacecraft. In order to facilitate this you can use the MercuryDevChronRef [[RixWiki:Templates|template]. The template takes three arguments, the month which should be the full English name of the month (e.g. April rather than Apr), the year, and the actual text for example {{MercuryDevChronRef|April|1962|17 April 1962}}. This will link the text 17 April 1962 to the section of the Development Chronology article for April 1962. The template MDCR is equivalent (and shorter).
Categories
You can also put the article in a category with others in a related topic. Just type [[Category:]], and put the name of the category between the colon and the brackets. For more information, refer to the Categories page.
Experiment
Try it! Here's the sandbox for this page.
Continue with the tutorial.
Frontpage, 1: Editing, 2: Formatting, 3: RixWiki links, 4: Related site links, 5: External links, 6: Uploading and using images, 7: Talk pages, 8: Keep in mind, 9: Registration, 10: Namespaces, 11: Wrap-up
