Community Central
Register
Community Central
No edit summary
(uncategorizing redirect)
 
(3 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
  +
#redirect [[Help:Page history]]
A '''permalink''', or a "permanent link", is a type of URL designed to refer to a specific information item and to remain unchanged permanently, or at least for a lengthy period of time. This allows you to cite an article or send a link to another person which you can be sure displays the specific version you were viewing at the time -- any later revisions will not be visible. This is helpful if you are concerned that the information you are referring to might be deleted, altered, or vandalized between the time that you send the link and someone else views it.
 
 
'''Note:''' Any changes not specific to that article's code, such as template changes, will ''not'' be preserved.
 
 
==How do I create a permalink?==
 
When you click "permalink" or "permanent link" in the navigation bar, you are taken to a revision page which displays the following information just below the page title:
 
:Revision as of [time, date] by [username] (Talk | contribs | block)
 
:(diff) ←Older revision | Current revision (diff) | Newer revision→ (diff)
 
 
You can also find the revision page for any old version of an article by clicking on the appropriate revision date in any [[Help:page history|page history]].
 
 
The url from this page will look something like this:
 
:http://wikiname.wikia.com/index.php?title=Namespace:Pagetitle&oldid=2828
 
 
Copy this URL from your browser's address bar to link to this particular revision of a page. The "oldid" at the end ensures that the page will look exactly as it did when you created the link.
 
 
==How do I use a permalink on a wiki page?==
 
Permalinks must be added using the normal [[Help:external link|external link]] format, with a space between the URL and any desired description text:
 
: <nowiki>[http://wikiname.wikia.com/index.php?title=Namespace:Pagetitle&oldid=2828 Revision as of August 1]</nowiki>
 
 
If you create such links frequently, you may wish to copy the [[Wikia:Template:Permalink|Permalink Template]] to your wiki and alter it as desired (see [[Help:Templates]] for more information).
 
 
You can also view the revision ID ("oldid") of the current version of a page using the new [[MetaWikipedia:Help:Variable|variable]] <nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki>.
 
 
==Older versions of MediaWiki==
 
Prior to MediaWiki 1.5, only old revisions could be linked to, and these were not permanent, since deletion and undeletion of a page would change the revision ID, and moving a page would change the revision ID. The "oldid" used in 1.5 will remain a permanent link unless a page is actually deleted.
 
 
==See also==
 
* [[Wikipedia:Permalink|Permalink on Wikipedia]]
 
[[Category:Admin Help Pages|P]]
 
[[Category:Help|Permalink]]
 
[[Category:Out of date help]]
 
[[Category:Link help|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 

Latest revision as of 03:34, 6 March 2013

Redirect to: