User blog comment:The M.E.O.W. King/Help/@comment-366087-20131218161522/@comment-366087-20131219161201

@Tasty - Write your text, highlight it, then in the toolbar select the Link button (short chain links icon), enter url or interwiki in the popout.

If you're still more comfortable with Classic, then use the dropdown-arrow attached to the EDIT button (before editing, or once in the editor pane) and you'll find "Classic Editor" (and Source Mode through it) as the top option. However, you can't get back to VE without submitting and re-editing.

If you are familiar with making the links (or any other wikitext edit) in Source, the VE toolbar MORE button will drop down options, the bottom of which is Source. This will open a popup similar to the Preview Pane, only fully editable. Make your wikitext edits, then "Apply Changes" to get back to VE. Or top-corner-X to cancel without changes.

Incidentially, on Walls and Forums, when making a post there is a new mini-tool button [ ] which will toggle the post editor to Source, then an "Eye" button will toggle it back. This will come in handy with a few things. For example: making a numbered list. The post-VE automatically adds a paragraph break instead of a simple linefeed. Which *breaks* the number list. So toggling into Source will allow you to format it correctly. :P