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(standards are imposed by the GFDL text corpus and the need to support multiple languages and services, the Mediawiki and Getwiki defaults are wrong, and we must say so) |
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==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. | ||
This is called [[anchor text]] and is usually best avoided, as it does not reinforce the name of the page in the end user's mind. | |||
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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]] | ||
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==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]] | ||
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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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===[[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=== | ||
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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), | |||
('m','http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1',1), | |||
('meta','http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1',1), | |||
('simple','http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1), | |||
('Wiktionary','http://wiktionary.org/wiki/$1',0), | |||
('WikiBooks','http://wikibooks.org/wiki/$1',0); | |||
</pre> | |||
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 | ===Linking to other language Wikipedias=== | ||
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 équitable]] or [[w:fr:Commerce équitable]]. | |||
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===Proposed Interwiki link standard=== | |||
''Please use alternate anchor text to simulate an [[interwiki link standard]] for now, e.g. [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Recyclopedia:avoid_anchor_text en: Recyclopedia: avoid anchor text]. Eventually this should be directly supported in software.'' | |||
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==Linking to URLs that use apostrophes (')== | |||
Directly writing the apostrophe to the url does not work and the apostrophe (') should be replaced by "%27" instead of the apostrophe, in the URL. Ugly but it works. | |||