Difference between revisions of "LinkingGuide"

Latest revision as of 17:08, 7 January 2020

Policy

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 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 articles, etc.

Internal Linking

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.

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.

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: recent changes 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.

Category Spam

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 AssumeGoodFaith and request the person read this guide.

Misleading Naming

Please do not add links (internal or external) with titles that purport to be something else.

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.

<a href="/WikiLink" title="WikiLink">WikiLink</a>

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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.
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+</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.
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+</p><p><br></p>
-<big>Internal Linking Guide</big></h2>
+<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Internal_Linking">Internal Linking</span></h2>
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+<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>.
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+<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>
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+<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>
-:'''By their nature,'''
+<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>
+<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>
-:Wiki support rich internal linking.  This is sometimes also called [[Automagical Linking]] or [[WikiLinking]].
+<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>
+<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.
-:The '''[[Related Domains]]''' area of each domain page uses this internal linking idea to create a "light rail" system which allows users to discover related sites.  Ideally, each domain page would have somewhere between a few and no more than 30 related links.
+</p>
+<pre><a href="/WikiLink" title="WikiLink">WikiLink</a>
-: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 20 such links or you're putting up links on very popular and not directly related sites, then you're overdoing it and it will look like spam to us.  Also linking from a high profile site is questionable.
+</pre>
+[[Category:About_Us:Glossary]][[Category:About_Us_Help]][[Category:AboutUs:Glossary]][[Category:AboutUs_Help]]
-== External linking ==
-:Repeated external linking on pages appears to look like spam to us.
-:Linking to a page on another website:
-:While editing a wiki page, put square brackets around the URL and the description text you wish to become a link.  Complex http links seem to behave better if you do not have any space between the opening bracket and http://...
-Example:
-:'''<nowiki>[http://www.mozilla.org Mozilla Website]</nowiki>'''
-:will create a new link that will function like this:
-:[http://www.mozilla.org Mozilla Website]
-== Misleading Naming ==
-:Also, please don't add links (internal or external) to yourself and then title them with something that purports to be something else.
-== Categories ==
-:Instead of mass linking, internal or external, categories are a constructive way to gather and categorize sites that are related. You can help us build the category article.  For example, it is not a category if there is only 1 or 2 webpages linked, or if you are advertising your website. The purpose of categories is to help users locate useful information, and to link wiki pages to related sites. It is '''not''' designed to be a SEO tool. Remember, hyper categorization makes information harder to locate, not easier.
-:* example: [[:Category:Culture Jamming]]
-==InternalLinking==
-:Added links to the text, connecting this article page to relevent terms or other websites found in the [[AboutUs.org]] database.
-== Excessive Linking ==
-:Currently each [[wiki]] page here at [[AboutUs]] links to the referenced website twice. By name at the top right and the thumbnail, mid right.  If you really think  you need to link more to the website, place a link in the '''External Link''' section.  Else it is subject to [[revert]]ing.
-==LinkSpam==
-:when a page is just loaded with links to outside pages that ususaly don't make sense and often still have html tags around them.  this is different than an edit that might be good, those we could tag as [[LinkTest]] or something.
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-[[Category:AboutUs:Glossary]]