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The '''Wiki template''' allows users to generate external links to Wikipedia articles without having to copy and paste an entire Wikipedia url. | The '''Wiki template''' allows users to generate external links to Wikipedia articles without having to copy and paste an entire Wikipedia url. | ||
==External links on Weezerpedia== | |||
First a little primer on external links. You can generate a link to an external website by placing brackets (i.e. ''[ ]'' ) around that link. Check it out: | |||
<pre>[https://weezer.com/tour]</pre> | |||
Gives you a link to the "Tour" page of Weezer's website: [https://weezer.com/tour]. | |||
You can "name" that link by adding a space after the url, and then typing whatever words you want to display afterward. That looks like: | |||
<pre>[https://weezer.com/tour The "Tour" page of Weezer's website]</pre> | |||
Which gives you: [https://weezer.com/tour The "Tour" page of Weezer's website]. | |||
If you wanted to display the url itself, merely type it twice, separated by a space, within the brackets: | |||
<pre>[https://weezer.com/tour https://weezer.com/tour]</pre> | |||
This gives you: [https://weezer.com/tour https://weezer.com/tour]. | |||
==Use== | ==Use== | ||
This template | This template takes advantage of the fact that every Wikipedia page has a unique url. It merely places whatever the Wikipedia article's name is at the end of the following text: | ||
<pre>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</pre> | <pre>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</pre> | ||
You can substitute any Wikipedia page name at the end of that url - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball], etc. | You can substitute any Wikipedia page name at the end of that url - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball], etc. This is - more or less - how Google Chrome and Firefox allow you to search Wikipedia through their normal browser search bar. | ||
The Wiki template is a shortcut to creating that url, by filling in the blank of the page name. | The Wiki template is a shortcut to creating that url, by filling in the blank of the page name. | ||
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{{Wiki|Weezer}} | {{Wiki|Weezer}} | ||
It's the same thing as if you typed: | |||
<pre>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weezer]</pre> | |||
It gives you the same link ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weezer]), but without having to deal with the url. | |||
==Troubleshooting== | ==Troubleshooting== | ||
*To "name" the link, add a space after "Weezer" and type what you want to display. This looks like: | *To "name" the link, add a space after "Weezer" and type what you want to display. This looks like: | ||
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Gives you a link to the Wikipedia page for the word ''the'', but "names" the link with the word after the space: "Beatles". Take a look:<br> | Gives you a link to the Wikipedia page for the word ''the'', but "names" the link with the word after the space: "Beatles". Take a look:<br> | ||
{{Wiki|The Beatles}} | {{Wiki|The Beatles}} | ||
To "name" a link to a multi-word Wikipedia article, type the same article name twice - once with brackets, and once without. | |||
<pre>{{Wiki|The_Beatles The Beatles}}</pre> | |||
This gives you: {{Wiki|The_Beatles The Beatles}} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Template:Wiki2]] - a template that does almost the same exact thing, but makes it a little easier to "name" links | *[[Template:Wiki2]] - a template that does almost the same exact thing, but makes it a little easier to "name" links | ||
*[[Template:Wiki3]] - a scarcely-used template that adds a super-score "W" after the link, to clarify to any reader that the link they're going to leads off of Weezerpedia. | *[[Template:Wiki3]] - a scarcely-used template that adds a super-score "W" after the link, to clarify to any reader that the link they're going to leads off of Weezerpedia. | ||