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If you're linking to another page on the same terms wiki, get the value of URL by taking the name of the page, converting it to lower case, and replacing each sequence of spaces and punctuation with a single hyphen. So if you're trying to link to a wiki page named "my fancy term acronym (MFTA)", the URL will be "my-fancy-term-acronym-mfta"."
If you're linking to a page from a different terms wiki, or to any other internet resource, browse to the location of that resource and copy the URL from your browser's address bar. This will CAN be the value of URL. However, a short form is also possible, if the other glossary is hosted from TOIP's github repos:
[multiword term](multiword_term@glossary)
Glossary is the name of a terms wiki repo. For example, to reference the term "administering authority" from the general TOIP glossary in the https://github.com/trustoverip/toip repo, the hyperlink would look like this: [administering authority](administering_authority@toip).
Attribution
Hyperlinks that give attribution to content with a CC-BY license or similar are a little fancier. They always appear at the end of a paragraph (or a long sentence); readers should be correct in their assumption that what is being attributed is the preceding chunk of text. They look like this:
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