Screencast: how to insert a wikilink in a Wikipedia article: transcript

Key points

• The editor is logged in and opens an article where a place of professional training is mentioned but not linked.
• After pressing edit, the word to be linked is highlighted and the link symbol in the toolbar is clicked.
• The tool offers two options: a link to another Wikipedia article or to an external site.
• Wikipedia suggests matching articles, and clicking the suggestion creates the link with the same link text.
• The editor describes the change with a short edit summary, publishes it, and the word appears as a blue link to the town's article.

Chapters

1. 0:00Opening the article and selecting the word to link
2. 1:03Choosing a suggested article in the link tool
3. 1:38Adding an edit summary and publishing the change

Full transcript

0:00Hello, I'm Ich du Nich, and now I'm going to show you how to add a link to another Wikipedia article. I'm already logged in, and I chose the article about Du Steiner. There is the place mentioned where she got her professional training, that is Bayer's Bronn. And I would like to add a link to the Wikipedia article about Bayer's Bronn. so I press the edit button and the editing window is open I go to the word where I want to add the link I highlight this word by as one and I click on the linking symbol in the edit toolbar I have two possibilities here I can link to another Wikipedia article or to an external site in this case I want to

1:03add a link to a wikipedia article and the wikipedia software is already displaying suggestions for links so in this case the place bias one already exists in wikipedia so i can simply click on that suggestion to include the link This window is now summing up what I just did. I created a link to the article Biasbron and the link text which is displayed in the article is Biasbron. This is below here.

1:38And this is exactly what I wanted so I press publish changes. As always I have to describe what I just changed. Add a link and I press publish changes. my edit was published and now you can see the word Biasbronn has become a blue link and when i click on this link the wikipedia article about the town Biasbronn in Germany will open

Source and licence

Recording: File:Insertwikilink.webm by Ichdunich (2020-05-26), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.