Editing Battlestar Wiki:Tutorial (External links)

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[[BW:MARK|Wiki-syntax]] makes it easy to make user-friendly '''external links'''.

== External links ==
If you want to link to a site outside of Wikipedia, it should almost always go under the "[[Wikipedia:External links|External links]]" heading at the end of an article.

The easiest way to make a link is to simply type in the full [[Wikipedia:URL|URL]] for the page you want to link to. If you want to make a link to [[Wikipedia:Google|Google]], all you need to do is type:
:<tt><nowiki>http://www.google.com/</nowiki></tt>
The wiki will automatically treat this text as a link (as has been done with the URL above) and will display the raw web address, including the "<nowiki>http://</nowiki>" part. In practice, you won't see this format much, as raw URLs are ugly and often give no clue to what the site actually ''is''.
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To make the link display something other than the URL, use one square bracket at each end. If you want to make a link to Google, type:
:<tt><nowiki>[http://www.google.com/]</nowiki></tt>
This will display the link as a number in brackets, like this: [http://www.google.com/]. This format is mostly used for citing sources within an article quickly. Using the [[BW:CITETEM|citation templates]] is the required way of the ''Battlestar Wiki''

If you want the link to appear with text that you specify, add an alternative title after the address separated by a '''space''' (''not'' a pipe). So if you want the link to appear as [http://www.google.com/ Google search engine], just type:
:[http://www.google.com/ Google search engine]

''Note'': Using certain characters, such as a pipe (<tt>|</tt>) in the URL of the link will cause the link to fail; however, [[Wikipedia:URL|URL]] syntax provides the ability to specify any character in a URL as a [[Wikipedia:hexadecimal|hexadecimal]] equivalent to its [[Wikipedia:ASCII|ASCII]] representation, so you can, for instance, write <tt>%7C</tt> instead of the pipe character. See Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:ASCII#ASCII printable characters|table of ASCII printable characters]] for more hexadecimal codes.

When placed under the "External links" heading, the links should be listed in bullet-point format:
:<tt><nowiki>==External links==</nowiki></tt>
: [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=18&ved=0CH8QFjAR&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbattlestargalactica.download-tvshows.com%2F&ei=QpvrS4KsB4nitgPb3pWxDw&usg=AFQjCNFMG0CfQEo1GdmeE4-V2Mp1ebfGcQ&sig2=jZH2gCEJbzmdHO-ym2DsQQ Battlestar Galactica episodes]


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