This template will allow you to create a local or interwiki link (such as a link to the history of a page) on a page without having the follow the link. This can be used, for example, when internal or interwiki links appear as external links. See Help:URL#URLs on_other Wikimedia projects for more information.

When you link to a Wikipedia or other Wikimedia project URL, omit the preceeding "http:", or "https:", so that the URL begins with "//". This allows users to use the protocol they're using currently.

You can use {{fullurl}} magicword to generate URLs to Wikipedia pages..

  • {{Plain link|url=//www.wikipedia.org}} gives [1]
  • <nowiki>{{Plain link|//www.wikipedia.org