New Window Links is a feature introduced in late-February 2012 which allows you to specify that links you add to a page will open up in a new window when clicked instead of forwarding the user along in the same browser window.

Step-by-Step

1. Open up a page you would like to add a link that will open in a new window to.
2. Find the link you want to make do this, or add a new link
3. Where you would normally link using wikitext like this: [[page name|link text]], instead use {{ #NewWindowLink: page name | link text }}
4. Save that page and try clicking the link

Examples

Here's some examples of different ways you can use New Window Links:

• Linked page/URL is the also the text of the link: {{ #NewWindowLink: Special:AllPages }} will produce: Special:AllPages
• Local links: {{ #NewWindowLink: Special:AllPages | a list of pages on the wiki }} will produce: a list of pages on the wiki
• External links: {{ #NewWindowLink: http://mediawiki.org/ | MediaWiki }} will produce: MediaWiki
• Interwiki links: {{ #NewWindowLink: Wikipedia:MediaWiki | Wikipedia article about MediaWiki }} will produce: Wikipedia article about MediaWiki
• Mailto links: {{ #NewWindowLink: mailto:john@example.com | mail John }} will produce: mail John

See also

• See Help:Links for help on creating standard links in the Visual Mode editor
• See Help:Wikitext for help on creating standard links in the Source Mode editor

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