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===How to fix bad links=== | ===How to fix bad links=== | ||
*In most cases, fixing an [[wikipedia:List_of_Japanese_Latin_alphabetic_abbreviations#N|NG]] link will mean finding the desired web page in the [http://www.archive.org Internet Archive] and linking to that archived page instead. | *In most cases, fixing an [[wikipedia:List_of_Japanese_Latin_alphabetic_abbreviations#N|NG]] link will mean finding the desired web page in the [http://www.archive.org Internet Archive] and linking to that archived page instead. | ||
*In some cases, an NG link will not be recoverable and should be surrounded in nowiki tags [ | *In some cases, an NG link will not be recoverable and should be surrounded in nowiki tags [[Special:Diff/16377/26212|like this]] to remove it from the external links table, so that it stops showing up in the reports. | ||
*Links marked as IW are external links that could be [[Help:Editing#Interwiki_links|interwiki links]], which make links shorter and more resistant to rot. The suggested interwiki link markup will be given in the report. For Wikipedia, you can add a language code in order to link to a page in a specific language, e.g. <nowiki>[[wikipedia:de:Test]]</nowiki>. | *Links marked as IW are external links that could be [[Help:Editing#Interwiki_links|interwiki links]], which make links shorter and more resistant to rot. The suggested interwiki link markup will be given in the report. For Wikipedia, you can add a language code in order to link to a page in a specific language, e.g. <nowiki>[[wikipedia:de:Test]]</nowiki>. | ||
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**Sometimes an "external internal" may seem to be necessary; for instance you may wish to link to a specific version of a page, which used to require putting the full URL, [http://wiki.oni2.net/w/index.php?title=Oni&oldid=7685 like this]. In fact, there's no need to link to any page at all, as the "id" of an edit, like the one you see in that sample URL, is unique wiki-wide. All you need to do is plug the edit ID into the Permalink page [[Special:Permalink/7685|like this]], and you're done (you'll notice that the preceding link says "Special:Permalink" in the wikitext, but "Permalink" is actually a shortcut for "PermanentLink", so that's how it shows up for the reader). | **Sometimes an "external internal" may seem to be necessary; for instance you may wish to link to a specific version of a page, which used to require putting the full URL, [http://wiki.oni2.net/w/index.php?title=Oni&oldid=7685 like this]. In fact, there's no need to link to any page at all, as the "id" of an edit, like the one you see in that sample URL, is unique wiki-wide. All you need to do is plug the edit ID into the Permalink page [[Special:Permalink/7685|like this]], and you're done (you'll notice that the preceding link says "Special:Permalink" in the wikitext, but "Permalink" is actually a shortcut for "PermanentLink", so that's how it shows up for the reader). | ||
**Sometimes you need to link to a diff between two | **Sometimes you need to link to a diff between two revisions of a page, or between two different pages. In this case you plug the old and new revision numbers into the "Special:Diff" page [[Special:Diff/21491/21492|like this]] (no need for page IDs, as explained above). --> | ||
===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||