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list of Interwiki links available now
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Linking to Wikipedia and Meta-wikipedia is now working) |
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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. | is used to link to other wiki's namespaces without writing the fully qualified URL. This makes collaboration between wikis much simpler. | ||
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Links outside [[Consumerium]] are colored [[w:color|differently]] then the usual ones. | Links outside [[Consumerium]] are colored [[w:color|differently]] then the usual ones. | ||
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==Name spaces== | |||
There exists a number of namespaces in the consumerium wiki space these are | There exists a number of namespaces in the consumerium wiki space these are | ||
*"Special" this is used for machine generated pages, accessible through the "special pages" drop down list on the top of the page | *"Special" this is used for machine generated pages, accessible through the "special pages" drop down list on the top of the page | ||
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==Hiding namespaces== | |||
You can use "the pipe trick" to hide the namespace without typing in alternative text like this | You can use "the pipe trick" to hide the namespace without typing in alternative text like this | ||
* <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]] | ||
==New in [[MediaWiki]] 1.2.0rc3== | |||
Now the following ways will work to correctly link: | Now the following ways will work to correctly link: | ||
http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_linking (as before) | http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_linking (as before) | ||
http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wiki_linking (notice the change from wiki.phtml to index.php | http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wiki_linking (notice the change from wiki.phtml to index.php | ||
http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/Wiki_linking (new ease of use without mod_rewrite | http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/Wiki_linking (new ease of use without mod_rewrite | ||
==Interwiki links available now== | |||
REPLACE INTO interwiki (iw_prefix,iw_url,iw_local) VALUES | |||
('w','http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1), | |||
('m','http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1), | |||
('meta','http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1), | |||
('simple','http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1); | |||