Editing Help:Categorising pages (section)

==Linking to a category==
To link to a category, add a colon to the beginning of the name:

:<kbd><nowiki>[[</nowiki>''':'''<nowiki>Category:IBM keyboards]]</nowiki></kbd>

This produces a link as follows:

:[[:Category:IBM keyboards]]

To avoid having "Category:" show up as part of the link text, add a pipe to the end of the name (i.e. set the display text to the empty string):

:<kbd><nowiki>[[:Category:IBM keyboards</nowiki>'''|'''<nowiki>]]</nowiki></kbd>

When saving the page, this will automatically expand out, and be saved, as follows:

:<kbd><nowiki>[[:Category:IBM keyboards|IBM keyboards]]</nowiki></kbd>

This required redundancy is an unfortunate limitation of the way MediaWiki was designed.