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 * 03:45, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 05:29, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Replacement of with )
 * 03:36, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 15:46, 27 October 2005 User:DavidBiesack (Repairing links when disambiguating pages)
 * 20:31, 26 September 2005 User:Korg m (Reverted edits by 213.141.159.252 to last version by Patrick)
 * 17:38, 25 September 2005 User:213.141.159.252
 * 13:29, 23 September 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 24.248.175.229 to last version by 152.66.212.151)
 * 23:33, 20 September 2005 User:24.248.175.229 (→Internal link style vs interwiki link style: pros and cons)
 * 09:52, 14 September 2005 User:152.66.212.151 (rv 152.23.79.239 to Patrick)
 * 18:32, 12 September 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 86.104.17.160 to last version by 152.23.79.239)
 * 17:49, 12 September 2005 User:86.104.17.160
 * 20:20, 8 September 2005 User:152.23.79.239
 * 14:12, 1 September 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous - avoid ambig; rephrase)
 * 14:05, 1 September 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 202.88.239.86 to last version by SV Resolution)
 * 12:07, 1 September 2005 User:202.88.239.86 (→Internal link vs Interwiki link: pros and cons)
 * 16:18, 30 August 2005 User:SV Resolution (→Miscellaneous - Subheadings make clear &quot;external link&quot; not part of &quot;interwiki&quot; material, etc.)
 * 05:29, 20 August 2005 User:ScribeOfTheNile m (rv test)
 * 05:28, 20 August 2005 User:68.170.54.7
 * 20:35, 19 August 2005 User:82.135.70.14 (→Subpage feature)
 * 18:07, 18 August 2005 User:ManuelGR m (→Subpage feature)
 * 18:02, 18 August 2005 User:ManuelGR (→Subpage feature - Documented according to bug #845 comment)
 * 16:50, 11 August 2005 User:ManuelGR (→Subpage feature - Adedd up page links)
 * 23:24, 21 July 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 85.98.60.131 to last version by 128.240.229.3)
 * 22:54, 21 July 2005 User:85.98.60.131
 * 15:48, 21 July 2005 User:128.240.229.3 (→Subpage feature - wikilink Language.php)
 * 07:57, 15 July 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 198.144.192.42 to last version by Zigger)
 * 04:26, 15 July 2005 User:198.144.192.42 (→Linking from a page)
 * 12:07, 14 July 2005 User:Zigger m (→Subpage feature -  Avoid Main ns redir.)
 * 04:07, 14 July 2005 User:209.10.209.56 (→Link titles)
 * 04:07, 14 July 2005 User:209.10.209.56 (→Link titles)
 * 21:30, 7 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→Linking from a page)
 * 21:28, 7 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - &quot;red link&quot;)
 * 16:04, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (On the other hand, a page about a subtopic with a link to the parent page and with the same category tags may exceed a stub threshold without containing any additional info not provided by the parent)
 * 12:11, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Stub feature -iff)
 * 14:06, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→Stub feature)
 * 14:00, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Stub feature - for clean-up work involving bypassing redirects, temporarily using a very high stub threshold value is convenient.)
 * 13:55, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (However, section linking to a &quot;stub&quot; does not work; normally that would not matter, but with this special use of the stub feature it does. In this regard it is better to use external link style for se)
 * 13:49, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 209.56.60.2 to last version by Patrick)
 * 18:58, 25 June 2005 User:209.56.60.2 (→Other conversions)
 * 10:23, 16 June 2005 User:Patrick (Pages with a name of the form User:A/B are considered to be in the set of user pages of user A. Typically, with regard to such pages, more relaxed rules apply for user A, and more strict rules for oth)
 * 12:44, 11 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature - update)
 * 10:09, 5 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page, a section, or an arbitrary position in a page)
 * 10:08, 5 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - ==Linking to a page, a section, or an arbitrary position of a page==)
 * 14:20, 1 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page -For an internal link to an image or category, prefix a colon.)
 * 14:13, 1 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page -A link to a non-existing image)
 * 11:27, 29 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Miscellaneous)
 * 11:25, 29 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous -A hover box can also be produced without link.)
 * 11:22, 29 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous - Oddly, the title is not present at interlanguage links (at the page margin).)
 * 14:20, 28 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous)
 * 14:13, 28 May 2005 User:Patrick (For these effects a piped link is useful even if it not followed, e.g. for displaying the meaning of an acronym, the municipality to which a town belongs, or any other remark: UN, [)
 * 13:59, 28 May 2005 User:Patrick (Putting the wikitext &lt;nowiki&gt; does not provide a link and only produces a blank space (perhaps depending on the browser, here it produces &quot; &quot;), but for &quot;W)
 * 05:47, 27 May 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 69.3.168.73 to last version by Patrick)
 * 01:01, 27 May 2005 User:69.3.168.73 (→Linking from a page)
 * 07:36, 18 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page)
 * 07:35, 18 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page)
 * 02:54, 18 May 2005 User:200.83.101.204
 * 14:53, 9 May 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by Shaffysingh to last version by Patrick)
 * 13:27, 9 May 2005 User:Shaffysingh
 * 09:59, 9 May 2005 User:Patrick (For some basics, see also Help:Editing#Links, URLs.)
 * 09:45, 9 May 2005 User:Patrick (mv talk to talk page)
 * 23:51, 8 May 2005 User:67.102.112.231 (→Linking from a page)
 * 11:12, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (A code like %70 in a redirect disables it, although the link works from the redirect page. For a redirect that works, the redirect page shows the canonical form of the target, unlike its preview page,)
 * 10:44, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Other conversions)
 * 17:18, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile
 * 20:55, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 10:53, 19 April 2005 User:AnyFile (→See also - languages link via template)
 * 10:03, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous)
 * 09:56, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous)
 * 09:47, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous - Using interwiki link style to link to an internal page differs from one in internal link style as follows:)
 * 09:20, 19 April 2005 User:Jni m (rv. spam)
 * 09:13, 19 April 2005 User:81.213.168.54
 * 22:51, 18 April 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 15:27, 11 April 2005 User:Wmahan m (→Miscellaneous - sp)
 * 16:07, 5 April 2005 User:64.235.101.178
 * 16:06, 5 April 2005 User:64.235.101.178
 * 16:06, 5 April 2005 User:64.235.101.178
 * 03:01, 24 March 2005 User:Brianjd (→Subpage feature - The default settings, AS OF REVISION 1.21)
 * 23:32, 17 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Additional effects of links - ==Special effects of links==)
 * 20:34, 8 March 2005 User:64.26.171.13 (→Stub feature)
 * 15:58, 3 February 2005 User:81.138.100.115 ( to, as requested)
 * 14:16, 29 January 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - span)
 * 21:47, 28 January 2005 User:165.91.215.97 (→Anchors)
 * 15:29, 5 January 2005 User:198.178.8.81
 * 08:17, 8 November 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - font or div tag like &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;font id=&quot;..&quot; /&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;)
 * 02:04, 2 November 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - See e.g. the three rank links in w:Netherlands and their targets.)
 * 01:24, 2 November 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking to a page)
 * 01:22, 2 November 2004 User:Patrick (one can not use a HTML element &quot;a&quot; (see Help:HTML in wikitext), but one can make a div tag &lt;div id=&quot;..&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt; or add id=&quot;..&quot; to the start tag of any existing HTML element.)
 * 08:19, 15 October 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking from a page)
 * 08:18, 15 October 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page -(ftp:// also works, but file://) does not).)
 * 04:50, 26 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Stub feature - However, linking to a section of what according to this criterion is a stub does not seem to work, except when external link style is used!)
 * 23:20, 20 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous - update)
 * 09:03, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Subpage feature)
 * 08:07, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Additional effects of links - since this effect applies for every link occurrence independently, a convention to avoid multiple linking within one page typically does not apply for date links.)
 * 21:54, 5 September 2004 User:Patrick (→See also -Additional effects of links)
 * 13:42, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page -existence detection feature)
 * 08:22, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking from a page)
 * 12:26, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Stub feature)
 * 12:25, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Stub feature - However, note that due to the possible inclusion of templates and images, a small wikitext does not mean a small composite page in terms of amount of information, or amount of bytes)
 * 12:10, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 12:07, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Stub feature)
 * 12:04, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page -The idea behind this is that such pages are &quot;w:stubs&quot; which need fixing, or which are less worthwhile to go to. Alternatively, with a higher threshold value, the feature)
 * 11:47, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - *for links to the main namespace, known from the hoverbox or status bar, an indication of links having a redirect as target)
 * 10:53, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking from a page)
 * 10:51, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (Note that if a very high value is specified as threshold, this feature allows distinction according to namespace (in the main namespace or not) instead of the intended use of distinction according to)
 * 10:44, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - in class 'stub' if all the following is true:)
 * 08:22, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - The value of the &quot;threshold for stub display&quot; (number of bytes) specified in the help:preferences determines whether the link is in class 'stub' (smaller pages) or no cl)
 * 22:29, 21 August 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *w:Wikipedia:Canonicalization)
 * 12:20, 18 August 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *Links table *Brokenlinks table)
 * 09:17, 16 August 2004 User:Patrick (*linking to a page for which internal link style is not possible, such as an old version of a page, a diff of two versions, Recent Changes or Watchlist with parameters, Backlinks page, etc.)
 * 09:08, 16 August 2004 User:Patrick (works now)
 * 21:59, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page)
 * 21:57, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - *In the second method, the help:image description page contains a redirect.)
 * 21:54, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - Correspondingly, there are two ways to use an image as link to a page. In the first method, only possible in projects that allow [[Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files#Embedd)
 * 13:58, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - In the first case the link title is the name of the (eventual) target page, in the second case it is equal to the link label. By using a piped link and a redirect, the la)
 * 13:51, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - There are two ways of allowing the link label and the (eventual) link target to be chosen independently:)
 * 12:47, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature - What links here and Related changes ignore these automatic links.)
 * 09:00, 9 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Plus sign in a link)
 * 08:59, 9 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -A plus sign in the page name in the URL is equivalent with a space, e.g. /wiki/a+b leads to the page A b.)
 * 08:49, 9 August 2004 User:Patrick (In internal and interwiki link style, a plus sign in a page name is not allowed, the HTML and hence the rendered page just shows the wikitext, e.g. a+b. In external link style a plus sign in the U)
 * 08:19, 8 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 23:13, 7 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Subpage feature)
 * 23:12, 7 August 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 23:10, 7 August 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *Parser_testing#Internal_links and the next section of that page)
 * 14:02, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Link titles - fixed)
 * 14:00, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Interwiki link to section -seems fixed)
 * 13:39, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Link titles - However, even if the anchor is not in the title and even if the browser does not show the URL in the hover box, the anchor can still be seen in the status bar.)
 * 13:29, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Link titles - Since the HTML element &quot;a&quot; is disabled when put directly in the wikitext, one can not choose the link target and link title independently. This would be useful e.g. to link the word)
 * 13:19, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Link titles - the anchor is shown in the external link style, but not in the internal link style (and not in the interwiki link style, for which the anchor does not work, but for which viewing it)
 * 13:15, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (As shown by the examples a#b, w:a#b, http://a.b#c, the link title is a, w:a, and &lt;nowiki&gt;http://a.b#c&lt;/nowiki&gt;, respectively (also for the piped link version).)
 * 08:27, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature - See also w:Wikipedia:Subpages.)
 * 08:28, 22 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Conversions -==Interwiki link to section== (BUG))
 * 07:36, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature -Settings per project are done in LocalSettings.php .)
 * 07:30, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature -DefaultSettings.php)
 * 06:14, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature -$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array( -1 =&gt; 0, 0 =&gt; 0, 1 =&gt; 1, 2 =&gt; 1, 3 =&gt; 1, 4 =&gt; 0, 5 =&gt; 1, 6 =&gt; 0, 7 =&gt; 1, 8 =&gt; 0, 9 =&gt; 1, 10 =&gt; 0, 11 =&gt; 1);)
 * 05:59, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature - Subpages can have subpages themselves. Links to the whole hierarchy line of pages from the top is shown on the page.)
 * 05:49, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature - Like most letters of a page name, the first letter after the slash is case-sensitive, A/B and A/b are different.)
 * 05:41, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (==Subpage feature==)
 * 05:30, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (Depending on the project, for certain namespaces a subpage feature is enabled. On Wikipedia this is in talk namespaces, and the user and project namespace, on Meta also in the main namespace.)
 * 05:14, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Conversions)
 * 22:51, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Automatic link - The links shows up even if namespace:a/b does not exist, provided that namespace:a exists.)
 * 22:49, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick (In talk namespaces, and the user and project namespace, a page with a name of the form namespace:a/b is comsidered a subpage of namespace:a, and shows a link automatically to the parent page automatic)
 * 13:11, 16 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - with Template:Link this can conveniently be done, e.g. giving a (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/b);)
 * 11:45, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (thus, if this concerns an interlanguage link, it can not be rendered on the edge of the page, it has to be in the page body.)
 * 09:57, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - &lt;/a&gt; (not sure how needed this is))
 * 09:43, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - If one wants to link to a position that is not suitable for starting a (sub)section, one can make an anchor &lt;a id=&quot;..&quot;&gt; or add id=&quot;..&quot; to the start tag of any existing [[w:HTML)
 * 06:27, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Conversions)
 * 06:13, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Conversions)
 * 05:51, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Conversions)
 * 05:37, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Conversions - %70)
 * 05:26, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Conversions -more)
 * 21:53, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking to a page)
 * 21:46, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - A consequence is e.g. that one can not conveniently bookmark the URL with anchor.)
 * 21:16, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (Note a project does not keep a record of namespace prefixes or capitalization settings of sister projects, therefore less conversions can take place in an interwiki link than in an internal link.)
 * 21:10, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -misc)
 * 20:52, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking to a page)
 * 20:51, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -conversions)
 * 20:44, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Conversions)
 * 20:43, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -conversions)
 * 16:13, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -Consider e.g.:)
 * 16:03, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (Apart from linking to the top, one can link to a section, see Help:Section#Section_linking. If the page name has to be converted, e.g. capitalized, then section linking still works, but the anchor)
 * 10:17, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick ((no class or class='new', see below))
 * 22:41, 12 July 2004 User:Patrick ((the classes can be used for separate colors or fonts per class by means of a specification in a CSS))
 * 21:27, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick (alternatively link type 2 can be used, see Help:Template#Restrictions.)
 * 11:58, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 07:10, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick (In case 3, links like [ target ] are automatically labelled with serial numbers 1, 2, 3, ...)
 * 07:05, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 07:02, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 07:00, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick (*linking to an edit page on a sister wiki (including a non-existing page, the link being an invitation or preparation for creating one, just like is common for internal pages))
 * 06:56, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 06:51, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick (BUG: interwiki link to section does not work; workaround: external link style)
 * 14:50, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick (This can be switched off in the preferences. The browser may also show similar info, but with the possible section indication, in the adress bar.)
 * 14:32, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 14:29, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
 * 14:21, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 14:20, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick (On some browsers, putting the mouse pointer over a hyperlink will show a hover box the title attribute in the link anchor in the HTML code. This is the page name in the case of an internal link, the p)
 * 13:56, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick (→See also)
 * 14:33, 9 July 2004 User:Patrick (some restriction with the use of parameters if the referring page is a template)
 * 14:13, 9 July 2004 User:Patrick (An example of the latter is in Template:Pd: although internal link style can be used for a calculation, e.g. google:200/7, external link style like http://www.google.com/search?q=200/7 is needed when)
 * 13:59, 9 July 2004 User:Patrick (URLs#URLs in external links)
 * 13:49, 9 July 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
 * 13:34, 9 July 2004 User:Patrick (new)