Template:Plainlink/doc

This template will allow you to create a local or interwiki link (such as a link to the history of a page) on a page without having the icon following the link. This can be used, for example, when internal or interwiki links appear as external links. See Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Help:URL#URLs on other Wikimedia projects for more information.

Caution

You can use {{fullurl}} Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination magicword to generate URLs to Wikipedia pages.

Also, this template is not suitable for genuinely external links, since it suppresses displaying the external link small icon (external link icon); for external links, use {{URL}}

Examples

• {{Plain link|url=https://www.wikipedia.org}} gives [1]
• {{Plain link|https://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia}} gives Wikipedia
• {{Plain link|https://www.wikipedia.org | Wikipedia}} gives Wikipedia
• {{Plain link|https://www.google.co.uk|Google}} gives Google

Note that if your url or link title contains an equals sign = you must use named parameters:

• {{Plain link|url=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equals_sign&oldid=282228764|name="=" }} gives "="

Redirects

To be more concise, you can use {{scp}} or {{plnk}} and numbers as parameter names, e.g.:

• {{scp|1=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equals_sign&oldid=282228764|2="="}} gives the same "="
• {{plnk|1=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equals_sign&oldid=282228764|2="="}} gives the same "="

TemplateData

This is the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Plainlink

{
	"description": "Use this template to add a local or interwiki link that would otherwise show a box and arrow icon next to the link without the icon.",
	"format": "inline",
	"params": {
		"url": {
			"aliases": ["URL","1"],
			"label": "URL",
			"description": "URL of the link. For Wikimedia links, use the format \"//example.com\". This allows users to use the protocol they're currently using.",
			"type": "url"
		},
		"name": {
			"aliases": ["NAME","2"],
			"label": "Text",
			"description": "Text to be linked",
			"type": "string"
		}
	},
	"paramOrder": [
		"url",
		"name"
	]
}
<!--</templatedata>-->

See also

• Help:External link icons
• Template:Querylink, generates a plain link for Wikipedia pages with extended parameters
• Template:Plain, a similar template that keeps the URL written out
• Template:Diff
• Template:Oldid
• Template:URL