User:Reagle/examples
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This page exemplifies trickier Wikipedia syntax you might need to use. Feel free to edit source and copy it as needed.
Permanent links and diffs
Every time you save/publish a page, you create a new version in its history -- designated by the oldid number seen in the page's URL/addressbar.
In Wikipedia discussion, you often need to reference versions ("permalink") of a page and the differences ("diffs") between them using the oldid. There's a few ways to do this. I like to use Special:Permalink and Special:Diff, you can also use an external link (placing a complete URL in single brackets, which shows the external icon "
".) For example:
- a version ("permalink") of a page: Special:Permalink/623998644 or .
- the difference ("diff") between
- two versions (i.e.,
oldids): Special:Diff/623998644/927024688 or . - a version and its previous: Special:Diff/623998644/prev or .
- a version and the current version: Special:Diff/623998644/cur or .
- two versions (i.e.,
And you can, of course, use a nicer name for any of these links.