LinkingGuide - Revision history

Babsouk: WYSIWYG edit

2020-01-07T17:08:27Z

WYSIWYG edit

Asad Mahmood Butt: flagged as noextra

2015-03-21T08:45:15Z

flagged as noextra

WikiSysop: migration import

2013-11-08T17:38:52Z

migration import

James Milligan: Minor grammar/formatting

2011-06-22T19:12:02Z

Minor grammar/formatting

MarkDilley at 22:01, 27 May 2011

2011-05-27T22:01:36Z

MarkDilley at 20:15, 1 October 2010

2010-10-01T20:15:54Z

MarkDilley at 20:12, 1 October 2010

2010-10-01T20:12:24Z

MDawe: /* BiLinks */

2010-05-11T18:25:56Z

‎BiLinks

Saad Saeed: Roll to

2010-04-21T11:58:35Z

Roll to

Manhari Aryal: /* Internal Linking */

2010-04-21T10:09:43Z

‎Internal Linking

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-==Policy==
+{{DISPLAYTITLE:LinkingGuide}}<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Policy">Policy</span></h2>
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+<hr><p>Linking off of AboutUs is limited to linking from the website profile page to the site being described.  Example, you could link to http://Foo.com from the website profile page <a href="/Foo.com" title="Foo.com">Foo.com</a>.  Any other external links should be internal <a href="/WikiLinks" class="mw-redirect" title="WikiLinks">WikiLinks</a> to the website profile page, and then external link to that website.
-Linking off of AboutUs is limited to linking from the website profile page to the site being described.  Example, you could link to <nowiki>http://Foo.com</nowiki> from the website profile page [[Foo.com]].  Any other external links should be internal [[WikiLinks]] to the website profile page, and then external link to that website.
+</p><p>The exception to this is social media sites like <a href="/Facebook" class="mw-redirect" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>, <a href="/Twitter" class="mw-redirect" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>, etc. - and news articles, etc.
+</p><p><br></p>
-The exception to this is social media sites like [[Facebook]], [[Twitter]], etc. - and news articles, etc.
+<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Internal_Linking">Internal Linking</span></h2>
+<hr><div class="floatleft"><a href="/File:Link.png" class="image"><img alt="Link.png" src="http://d11i3gcvg70i17.cloudfront.net/images/f/fd/Link.png" width="48" height="48"></a></div>By nature, Wikis support rich internal linking, also known as <a href="/Automagical_Linking" class="mw-redirect" title="Automagical Linking">Automagical Linking</a> or <a href="/WikiLinking" class="mw-redirect" title="WikiLinking">WikiLinking</a>.
+<dl><dd> The <a href="/index.php?title=Related_Domains&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Related Domains (page does not exist)">Related Domains</a> area of each domain page uses this internal linking idea to create a system that allows users to discover related sites within the <a href="/AboutUs.org" class="mw-redirect" title="AboutUs.org">AboutUs.org</a> database.  Ideally, each domain page will have somewhere between a few and <b>no more than 30 related links</b>.</dd></dl><dl><dd> If you have a site that is related to a given topic, feel free to add some related links from other site pages to your page.  Please don't over do it, however.  If you're adding more than <b>30</b> such links or are putting up links on very popular and unrelated sites, then it will look like <a href="/index.php?title=spam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="spam (page does not exist)">spam</a> to us.  In addition, linking from a high profile site is questionable.</dd></dl><dl><dt> To link internally</dt>
-==Internal Linking==
+<dd></dd></dl><dl><dd>While editing a wiki page, place double square brackets around the AboutUs page name and the description text you wish to become a link.  Be sure to separate them with a vertical bar.  This: [[RecentChanges|recent changes]] will appear as <a href="/recent_changes" class="mw-redirect" title="recent changes">recent changes</a>.</dd></dl><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Link_Spam">Link Spam</span></h2>
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+<hr><dl><dd> When a page is loaded with links to outside pages that have no correlation or links that still have <a href="/index.php?title=html&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="html (page does not exist)">html</a> tags around them, we view this as link <a href="/index.php?title=spam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="spam (page does not exist)">spam</a>.  These are subject to deletion.</dd></dl><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Category_Spam">Category Spam</span></h2>
-[[Image:Link.png|left]]By nature, Wikis support rich internal linking, also known as [[Automagical Linking]] or [[WikiLinking]].{{Clear}}
+<dl><dd> When someone creates a bunch of categories and adds their external links to the category.  This is a bit of work to clean up and should be stopped as soon as seen.  Try to always <a href="/AssumeGoodFaith" class="mw-redirect" title="AssumeGoodFaith">AssumeGoodFaith</a> and request the person read this guide.</dd></dl><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Misleading_Naming">Misleading Naming</span></h2>
+<dl><dd> Please do not add links (internal or external) with titles that purport to be something else.</dd></dl><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="BiLinks"><a href="/BiLinks" title="BiLinks">BiLinks</a></span></h2>
-: The [[Related Domains]] area of each domain page uses this internal linking idea to create a system that allows users to discover related sites within the [[AboutUs.org]] database.  Ideally, each domain page will have somewhere between a few and '''no more than 30 related links'''.
+<p>Allow comfortable navigation and maintaining of internal and external Wiki-contributions. It should go without saying that a link to an external (wiki-) page should be linked back for fairness.
+</p>
-: If you have a site that is related to a given topic, feel free to add some related links from other site pages to your page.  Please don't over do it, however.  If you're adding more than '''30''' such links or are putting up links on very popular and unrelated sites, then it will look like [[spam]] to us.  In addition, linking from a high profile site is questionable.
+<pre><a href="/WikiLink" title="WikiLink">WikiLink</a>
+</pre>
-; To link internally:
+[[Category:About_Us:Glossary]][[Category:About_Us_Help]][[Category:AboutUs:Glossary]][[Category:AboutUs_Help]]

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 <-> [[WikiLink]]
-[[Category:AboutUs Help]]
+__NOTOC__
 [[Category:AboutUs:Glossary]]
-__NOTOC__
+[[Category:AboutUs_Help]]

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 Linking off of AboutUs is limited to linking from the website profile page to the site being described.  Example, you could link to <nowiki>http://Foo.com</nowiki> from the website profile page [[Foo.com]].  Any other external links should be internal [[WikiLinks]] to the website profile page, and then external link to that website.
-The exception to this is social media sites like [[Facebook]], [[Twitter]], etc. - and news artciles, etc.
+The exception to this is social media sites like [[Facebook]], [[Twitter]], etc. - and news articles, etc.
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 == [[BiLinks]] ==
-allow comfortable navigation and maintaining of internal and external Wiki-contributions. It should go without saying that a link to an external (wiki-) page should be linked back for fairness.
+Allow comfortable navigation and maintaining of internal and external Wiki-contributions. It should go without saying that a link to an external (wiki-) page should be linked back for fairness.
 <-> [[WikiLink]]

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-{{MainPageNav}}
+==Policy==
 ==Internal Linking==
-[[Image:Link.png|left]]By nature, Wikis support rich internal linking, also known as [[Automagical Linking]] or [[WikiLinking]].
+----
-:The [[Related Domains]] area of each domain page uses this internal linking idea to create a system that allows users to discover related sites within the [[AboutUs.org]] database.  Ideally, each domain page will have somewhere between a few and '''no more than 30 related links'''.
+: The [[Related Domains]] area of each domain page uses this internal linking idea to create a system that allows users to discover related sites within the [[AboutUs.org]] database.  Ideally, each domain page will have somewhere between a few and '''no more than 30 related links'''.
-:If you have a site that is related to a given topic, feel free to add some related links from other site pages to your page.  Please don't over do it, however.  If you're adding more than '''30''' such links or are putting up links on very popular and unrelated sites, then it will look like [[spam]] to us.  In addition, linking from a high profile site is questionable.
+: If you have a site that is related to a given topic, feel free to add some related links from other site pages to your page.  Please don't over do it, however.  If you're adding more than '''30''' such links or are putting up links on very popular and unrelated sites, then it will look like [[spam]] to us.  In addition, linking from a high profile site is questionable.
-:<b>To link internally:</b>
+; To link internally:
 :While editing a wiki page, place double square brackets around the AboutUs page name and the description text you wish to become a link.  Be sure to separate them with a vertical bar.  This: <nowiki>[[RecentChanges|recent changes]]</nowiki> will appear as [[recent changes]].
 ==Link Spam==
 : When a page is loaded with links to outside pages that have no correlation or links that still have [[html]] tags around them, we view this as link [[spam]].  These are subject to deletion.

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 == Misleading Naming ==
-:Please do not add links (internal or external) with titles that purport to be something else.
+: Please do not add links (internal or external) with titles that purport to be something else.
-[http://www.ialbion.org link title]== [[BiLinks]] ==
+== [[BiLinks]] ==
 allow comfortable navigation and maintaining of internal and external Wiki-contributions. It should go without saying that a link to an external (wiki-) page should be linked back for fairness.
 <-> [[WikiLink]]

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