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*A link marked as "IW" is an external link that could be an [[Help:Editing#Interwiki_links|interwiki link]]. Interwiki links are 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>[[wp:de:Test]]</nowiki>. | *A link marked as "IW" is an external link that could be an [[Help:Editing#Interwiki_links|interwiki link]]. Interwiki links are 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>[[wp:de:Test]]</nowiki>. | ||
*A link marked as "EI" is an external link to a page on our own wiki that could simply be an [[Help:Editing#Intrawiki_links|intrawiki link]]. | *A link marked as "EI" is an external link to a page on our own wiki that could simply be an [[Help:Editing#Intrawiki_links|intrawiki link]]. | ||
**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 " | **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 supply the revision ID to the special Permalink page like this — [[Special:Permalink/7685]] — and you're done. | ||
**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 | **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 like this — [[Special:Diff/21491/21492]] (no need for page names as the revision IDs are unique, as explained above). | ||
*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. | *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. | ||