Template:Wiki3
The Wiki3 template allows users to generate external links to Wikipedia articles without having to copy and paste an entire Wikipedia url. It also adds a superscore "w" to the end of the url to clarify that the link will be taking the user off of Weezerpedia.
External links on Weezerpedia
First a little primer on external links. You can generate a link to an external website by placing brackets (i.e. [ ] ) around that link. Check it out:
[https://weezer.com/tour]
Gives you a link to the "Tour" page of Weezer's website: [1].
You can "name" that link by adding a space after the url, and then typing whatever words you want to display afterward. That looks like:
[https://weezer.com/tour The "Tour" page of Weezer's website]
Which gives you: The "Tour" page of Weezer's website.
If you wanted to display the url itself, merely type it twice, separated by a space, within the brackets:
[https://weezer.com/tour https://weezer.com/tour]
This gives you: https://weezer.com/tour.
Use
This template takes advantage of the fact that every Wikipedia page has a unique url. It merely places whatever the Wikipedia article's name is at the end of the following text:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
You can substitute any Wikipedia page name at the end of that url - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball, etc. This is - more or less - how Google Chrome and Firefox allow you to search Wikipedia through their normal browser search bar.
The Wiki3 template is a shortcut to creating that url, by filling in the blank of the page name.
When you type:
{{Wiki3|Weezer}}
You get a "named" external link to the Wikipedia article for Weezer. The word "Weezer" is placed in two spots: one to complete the url, and one to tell the wiki what to "name" the link. All of this is followed by a superscore "W".
Weezer[w]
It's the same thing as if you typed:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weezer Weezer]<sup>[w]</sup>
Troubleshooting
See also
- Template:Wiki - a template that does almost the same exact thing, but it's a little harder to "name" links, and there's no superscore "w".
- Template:Wiki2 - same as above, but it's easier to "name" links.