Editing Components/Links (section)

=== External Links that behave like internal links ===

This is useful if you have a link with URL parameters.
Note CSS class="plainlinks" in the <nowiki><span></nowiki>-wrapper:

This class comes with MediWiki core and hides the symbol for external links. 

In addition this class is configured in LocalSeetings.php for [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkTarget Extension:LinkTarget] and overwrites the standard behavior for external links (opens in the same browser tab instead of a new one).

Note: For external links you need to use an underscore (_) for pagenames with spaces (Main_Page instead of Main Page).

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"><span class="plainlinks">[{{SERVER}}/wiki/Main_Page?name={{CURRENTUSER}} Send me home with my name as URL parameter]</span></syntaxhighlight>
'''Example:''' <span class="plainlinks">[{{SERVER}}/wiki/Main_Page?name={{CURRENTUSER}} Send me home with my name as URL parameter]</span>

Note: At target page URL parameters can be used as follows:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{#urlget:parameter-name|default-value}}</syntaxhighlight>

See: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlGetParameters Extension:UrlGetParameters]