wikimarkup wikipedia has it's own special language called wikimarkup it is very important therefore to know a good deal of it when you begin to write an article links external links an external link is a link that goes to another website besides wikipedia they are formatted like this name of website goes here for example becomes to display alternate text for an external link type name of website goes here alternate text goes here note the space between the website's name and the alternate text for example google search engine becomes google search engine internal links an internal link is a link that links to any page within wikipedia they are formatted like this name of page goes here for example giraffe becomes giraffe an internal link can display alternate text through the use of a pipe character for example giraffe a long necked animal that lives on the plains of africa becomes a long necked animal that lives on the plains of africa normal text can also be blended into a link for example i like giraffe s becomes i like giraffes internal links can link across namespaces for example wikipedia neutral point of view becomes wikipedia neutral point of view they can also use pipe tricks for example wikipedia neutral point of view note the pipe character before the two end brackets becomes neutral point of view for example orange fruit becomes orange redirects a redirect is a page that if accessed sends you to a related page automagically for an example of this see gill net note how at the top of the page it says redirected from gill net voila for example redirect united states redirects whatever page it was on to united states when you've finished this portion of the lesson just tell me and i'll continue on to the next stage of your wikimarkup lesson happy editing ky