Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Broken Links

Broken External LInks
As you become more involved in editing in the wiki, you will see time to time links that are "broken." They do not go anywhere or they don’t look like links should. This lesson we will show some of the mistakes people make in posting links and how to correct them.

Broken Internal Links

 * [FamilySearch.org].

 Exercises Check your answers >
 * Create a link to Wikipedia
 * Create a link to FamilySearch.org
 * Create a link to Kentucky Genealogy in the Wiki
 * Create a link to California Genealogy in the Wiki
 * Create a link to the section "Research Tools" on the Nevada Genealogy page.
 * Create a link to the section "Topics" on the Glamorganshire page.
 * Create a link to Ancestry.com
 * Create a link to HTML and Wikitext - Lesson One in the wiki.

 Quick Quiz
 * How many square brackets for Internal Links?
 * A. One
 * B. Two


 * How many square brackets are necessary for external links?
 * A. One
 * B. Two


 * How do you separate the name of an Internal link for its name?
 * A. Put a space between them.
 * B. Put a pipe between them.


 * How do you link to a section of a page?
 * A. Put a pipe between the name of the page and the section.
 * B. Put a pound sign between the name of the page and the section.

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