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This is what we are up against
11 December: An important update for readers in the UK.
You deserve an explanation, so please don't skip this 1-minute read. It's Wednesday, 11 December. Our fundraiser will soon be over, but we're short of our goal. If you've lost count of how many times you've visited Wikipedia this year, we hope that means it's given you at least £2.75 of knowledge. If everyone who finds Wikipedia useful gave £2.75, we'd hit our goal in a few hours.
The internet we were promised—a place of free, collaborative, and accessible knowledge—is under constant threat. Wikipedia's volunteers create and verify the pages you rely on, supported by tools that undo vandalism within minutes, ensuring the information you seek is trustworthy.
Just 2% of our readers donate, so if you have given in the past and Wikipedia still provides you with £2.75 worth of knowledge, donate today. If you are undecided, remember any contribution helps. Thank you.
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| 1. Welcome | 2. Formatting text | 3. Linking other pages | 4. Talk pages | 5. Important things | 6. Be bold | 7. You are done |
Linking
You can easily make links to other articles in Wikipedia. If you want to link the word aardvark to the article on aardvarks, you would simply add two sets of square brackets around the word like this: [[aardvark]]. The link would look like this: aardvark.
You can also change what text appears in the link. To do this, add a pipe symbol ( | ) after the page you want to link to. Then add what you want to appear.
So typing [[Aardvark|article on aardvarks]] would look like this: article on aardvarks.
You can link to other websites as well as Wikipedia too. [http://www.google.com Google] would look like this: Google
