Template:Wiki
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:
[https://weezer.com/tour]
Gives you a link to the "Tour" page of Weezer's website: [1].
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:
[https://weezer.com/tour The "Tour" page of Weezer's website]
Which gives you: 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:
[https://weezer.com/tour https://weezer.com/tour]
This gives you: https://weezer.com/tour.
Use
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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
You can substitute any Wikipedia page name at the end of that url - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna, 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.
When you type:
{{Wiki|Weezer}}
You get an "unnamed" external link to the Wikipedia article for Weezer.
It's the same thing as if you typed:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weezer]
It gives you the same link ([3]), but without having to deal with the url.
Troubleshooting
- To "name" the link, add a space after "Weezer" and type what you want to display. This looks like:
{{Wiki|Weezer Weezer's Wikipedia page}}
Wikipedia articles with multiple-word titles
Most Wikipedia articles have more than one word in their title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles is an easy example. Because this template fills in the blank of a url that your browser will navigate to, you need to replace to any space characters (i.e. a space between two words) with underscore symbols. See below:
{{Wiki|The_Beatles}}
Gives you an "unnamed" link to the Beatles' wikipedia page:
Without the underscore symbol, the template doesn't work:
{{Wiki|The Beatles}}
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:
Beatles
To "name" a link to a multi-word Wikipedia article, type the same article name twice - once with brackets, and once without.
{{Wiki|The_Beatles The Beatles}}
This gives you: The Beatles
See also
- 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.