Editing Wiki linking
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==What you type is not what they see== | ===What you type is not what they see=== | ||
It is possible to make link texts differ from the name of the target using the "pipe" (unix) symbol which is "|" like this: | It is possible to make link texts differ from the name of the target using the "pipe" (unix) symbol which is "|" like this: | ||
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*Remember <nowiki>[[reality first|what ever you want people to see second]]</nowiki> if you have trouble remembering which way it is. | *Remember <nowiki>[[reality first|what ever you want people to see second]]</nowiki> if you have trouble remembering which way it is. | ||
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==Interwiki linking== | |||
is used to link to other wiki's namespaces without writing the fully qualified URL. This makes collaboration between wikis much simpler. | |||
*To link to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia use [[w:Wikipedia]] | |||
*To link to http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia use [[m:Wikipedia]] | |||
*To link to http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Consumer use [[wiktionary:Consumer]] | |||
Links outside [[Consumerium]] are colored [[w:color|differently]] then the usual ones. | |||
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==Name spaces== | ==Name spaces== | ||
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*"Image" [[image uploading is disabled for now, sorry]] | *"Image" [[image uploading is disabled for now, sorry]] | ||
*"Image_talk" [[image uploading is disabled for now, sorry]] | *"Image_talk" [[image uploading is disabled for now, sorry]] | ||
==Hiding namespaces== | ==Hiding namespaces== | ||
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* <nowiki>[[wiktionary:Product|]]</nowiki> (notice the "pipe" symbol) is presented like this [[wiktionary:Product|Product]] | * <nowiki>[[wiktionary:Product|]]</nowiki> (notice the "pipe" symbol) is presented like this [[wiktionary:Product|Product]] | ||
* <nowiki>[[Consumerium:Village pump|]]</nowiki> is presented like this [[Consumerium:Village pump|Village pump]] | * <nowiki>[[Consumerium:Village pump|]]</nowiki> is presented like this [[Consumerium:Village pump|Village pump]] | ||
== proposed standards == | |||
*[[interwiki link standard]] | |||
*[[interwiki identity standard]] - for links between authors and articles which are presently treated as "special", despite the fact they are often very tenuous | |||
*[[standard wiki URI]] | |||
-- | There are some temporary hacks which violate standards of the vast majority of [[GFDL text corpus]] articles, and others which make it difficult to move away from a service-specific hierarchy to a language-specific hierarchy. These are: | ||
===[[MediaWiki]] 1.2.0rc3 and [[GetWiki]] defaults | ===[[MediaWiki]] 1.2.0rc3 and [[GetWiki]] defaults == | ||
The following are the non-[[standard wiki URI]]s which are the unwise defaults: | The following are the non-[[standard wiki URI]]s which are the unwise defaults: | ||
http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_linking (as before) | http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_linking (as before) | ||
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===Current Interwiki links=== | ===Current Interwiki links=== | ||
REPLACE INTO interwiki (iw_prefix,iw_url,iw_local) VALUES | REPLACE INTO interwiki (iw_prefix,iw_url,iw_local) VALUES | ||
('w','http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1), | ('w','http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1), | ||
('m','http://meta. | ('m','http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1), | ||
('meta','http://meta. | ('meta','http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1), | ||
('simple','http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1 | ('simple','http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1); | ||
Should anyone have the need to link to Wikipedia in languages other than English, just stick in the language code like so: [[Wikipedia:fr:Commerce �quitable]] or [[w:fr:Commerce �quitable]]. ''This also violates the proposed [[interwiki link standard]], which would reverse this to [[fr:Wikipedia:Commerce_�quitable]], putting the language first to create a language-specific hierarchy, and requiring the full service name "Wikipedia".'' | |||
Should anyone have the need to link to Wikipedia in languages other than English, just stick in the language code like so: [[Wikipedia:fr:Commerce | |||
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