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==External link review== | ==External link review== | ||
Help us fight against [[wiktionary:linkrot|link rot]] by correcting bad links that have been found by our automated script. | Help us fight against [[wiktionary:linkrot|link rot]] by correcting bad links that have been found by our automated script. A daily report on bad links will always be found '''[http://iritscen.oni2.net/val/ValExtLinks%20report.htm here]'''. | ||
===How to fix bad links=== | ===How to fix bad links=== | ||
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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 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). | **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). | ||
*Some links simply have to be the way that they are, | *Some links simply have to be written the way that they are, and some return error codes but actually work fine. These links can be listed in the [http://iritscen.oni2.net/val/exceptions.txt exceptions file] in order to hide them in future reports. Contact Iritscen to have new exceptions added to this list. | ||
===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||