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There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:

1. internal links to other pages in the wiki
2. external links to websites
3. inter-wiki links (links to other wikis)
4. inter-language links to other language versions of the same wiki

To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already, it is displayed in blue, empty pages are displayed in red. Selflinks to the current page are not transformed in URLs but displayed in bold.

The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).

How to link

Description	You type	You get
Internal link	[[Main Page]]	Main Page
Category link	[[:Category:Help]]	Category:Help
Piped link	[[Main Page|different text]]	different text
Anchor link	[[#External links|Anchor link]]	Anchor link
External link	http://mediawiki.org	http://mediawiki.org
External link from internal image	[http://targetURL {{Server}}/wiki/images/imagelocation	Internal image
External link, different title	[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]	MediaWiki
External link, unnamed	[http://mediawiki.org]	[1]
External link, same host unnamed	[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]	[2]
Interwiki link	[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]	Wikipedia:MediaWiki
mailto	mailto:info@example.org	mailto:info@example.org
mailto unnamed	[mailto:info@example.org]	[3]
mailto named	[mailto:info@example.org info]	info
redirect	#REDIRECT [[Main Page]]	→ Main Page

VCHILL launch links

Base link

The base url to link to is http://chill.colostate.edu/java/vchill.php. It may be used in the standard wiki external link ways.

Arguments

Arguments are added to the base link using standard PHP notation. This is a series of pairs, each consisting of a name and a value. The arguments are separated from the base link by a question mark (?), and from each other by an ampersand (&). Within each argument pair, the value and name are separated by an equal sign (=). For example: http://chill.colostate.edu/java/vchill.php?arg1=value1&arg2=value2. Valid arguments:

Description	Argument name	Argument value	Example
Open plot windows	plot	Comma separated list of data type names	[4]
Open ascope windows	ascope	Comma separated list of data type names	[5]
Open numerical windows	numerical	Comma separated list of data type names	[6]
Open a bookmark	bookmark	Comma separated category (including prefix) and name of bookmark (including scantype). Be sure to escape any special characters (such as spaces).	[7]
Open one or more arbitrary sweeps	sweep	Comma separated sweeps, including complete path, but not data type, as printed by VCHILL when opening that sweep. Be sure to escape any special characters (such as spaces).	[8]
Change plotting mode	mode	One of: Ray, Sweep (this is the default), Volume, Continuous.	[9]
Change maximum plot range/zoom	range	Maximum plot range in km.	[10]
Change vertical exaggeration for RHI plots	rhistrectch	Stretch factor in decimal.	[11]
Change center	center	Kilometers east,north of the radar.	[12]
Toggle noise reduction	noisered	on or off.	[13]
Toggle smoothing	smoothing	on or off.	[14]
Connect to a realtime server	realtime	Colon separated server name and port number. Do not use this at the same time as bookmark or sweep!	[15]
Automatically save images	save	Either off (this is the default) or: comma separated: format,tilt,target. Format is one of png (image only), kmz (Google Earth compatible), both. Tilt is either all (to save all sweeps) or web (to save only if the sweep number matches the webtilt specified by the data's headers). Target is either ram (to save images to the saved image buffer, allowing creation of animations) or a path to write files to.	[16] [17]