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How to link to word definitions
Wikipedia has a sister project that presents hundreds of thousands of word definitions. It's called Wiktionary. Let's say you are writing a sentence and you want to create a link to the definition of a word, the understanding of which is crucial to understanding that article. But in this hypothetical situation, you don't want to link to the Wikipedia page for that word because doing so would be overkill. So, using our Source Editor, here's how you would provide a link to the definition of "understanding" on Wiktionary: both [[wiktionary:understanding|]] and [[wikt:understanding|]] will display like this: and will link to the definition of the word "understanding". Notice that the "pipe trick" (|) was used in the links above. – – Read more: |
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My name is Leon. I've been a Wikipedian since the early noughties. I was a Wikipedia administrator for ten years, but now semi-retired. | ||||
Some Wikipedians decided to group up to make certain articles or Wikipedia itself better. | |||||
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Top contributions : The above articles I have significantly contributed to achieve the status of good article at one time or another. |
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