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(Undo revision 249882 by Splarka (Talk). urlencode replaces space with '+', causing the link to fail. if we can't use #replace, it''s broken.)
 
(Solve the space encoding issue with interwiki link to 'mediawikiwiki' (included in default install of 1.15.1))
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| www.mediawiki.org
| www.mediawiki.org
| [[{{{1}}}|{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]]
| [[{{{1}}}|{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]]
| [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/{{urlencode:{{{1}}}}} {{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]
| [[mediawikiwiki:{{{1}}}|{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]]
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}}<noinclude>
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This template links to a page on from the [[Help:Contents|Help pages]]. The template has two parameters:
This template links to a page on mediawiki.org from the [[Help:Contents|Help pages]]. The template has two parameters:
# Pagename, optionally preceded by an interwiki link prefix valid on mediawiki.org
# Pagename, optionally preceded by an interwiki link prefix valid on mediawiki.org
# (optional) Link description
# (optional) Link description
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| www.mediawiki.org
| www.mediawiki.org
| This is so that the public domain help pages - which can be freely copied and included in other sites - have correct links to Mediawiki:
| This is so that the public domain help pages - which can be freely copied and included in other sites - have correct links to Mediawiki:
* on external sites, it creates an external link
* on external sites, it creates an interwiki link to 'mediawikiwiki' (included in the default interwiki table for new installs)
* on Mediawiki, it creates an internal or interwiki link
* on Mediawiki, it creates an internal or interwiki link


'''All''' links from the Help namespace to other parts of the mediawiki.org wiki should use this template.}}
'''All''' links from the Help namespace to other parts of the mediawiki.org wiki should use this template.}}
== Spaces in Page Titles ==
These '''must''' be replaced with underscores, otherwise the urlencoding mangles them and you get a page not found error on mediawiki.org.
So need <nowiki>{{Mediawiki|Page_Title}}</nowiki> not <nowiki>{{Mediawiki|Page Title}}</nowiki>


== Demo of interwiki link ==
== Demo of interwiki link ==


<nowiki>
<nowiki>
{{mediawiki|m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation}}</nowiki> gives either <nowiki>[[m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]] or [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/m%3AHelp%3ACalculation Help:Calculation]</nowiki>, rendered as [[m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]] or [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/m%3AHelp%3ACalculation Help:Calculation], respectively.  
{{mediawiki|m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation}}</nowiki> gives either <nowiki>[[m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]] or [[mediawikiwiki:m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]]</nowiki>.  


[[Category:Info templates|MediaWiki]]
[[Category:Info templates|MediaWiki]]
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Revision as of 05:21, 20 November 2009

[[mediawikiwiki:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]


This template links to a page on mediawiki.org from the Help pages. The template has two parameters:

  1. Pagename, optionally preceded by an interwiki link prefix valid on mediawiki.org
  2. (optional) Link description


Demo of interwiki link

{{mediawiki|m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation}} gives either [[m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]] or [[mediawikiwiki:m:Help:Calculation|Help:Calculation]].