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How do I redirect a link to another page - for instance, how to I get all links to [[:CIA|CIA]] to point to [[:Central Intelligence Agency|Central Intelligence Agency]]? -- [[:Robert Merkel|Robert Merkel]]
To redirect an article, make the entry <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[the name of the article you want the article you're editing to be redirected to]]</nowiki> --KQ
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I have seen people use footnotes of some sort (if I remember correctly, most were just hyperlinks to outside pages, like so [http://www.dilbert.com 1]). Are there rules about using footnotes? Are footnotes desirable?--branko
:I haven't seen any rules about footnotes, but personally I don't like the style you use above to refer to outside websites. When I see [1], I immediately think "footnote" or "references" and go to the end of the article to look up reference number 1. But there is none. I think it would be better to have a decent references section at the end of the article, listing outside sites (with URL, title, author, so that they can be found even if the URL changes), articles and books. If those references are numbered, you could actually use the [1] notation to refer to the first item. --AxelBoldt
::I agree. Is there a way, however, to link from a footnote to the reference it belongs to? In HTML you would use the name-attribute in an a-tag.--branko
:I just spent 20 minutes changing the footnotes in an article to link directly rather than to a name-attribute: all I had was a link, with no author and article name. I agree that having those would be better; however I do not mind if the <sup>footnotes</sup> link directly, as long as the notes are still listed out at the end. My .02. And no, I don't think the name-attributes are working, though you might [[:feature requests|second the request]]. --[[:KQ|KQ]]
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I can see that what people use for italics and bold letters are the HTML codes (<i> etc.) and not the quotation marks that are given in the table. In fact, the quotation marks (or apostrophe or whatever) don't seem to work. Should't this be fixed? I dare not do it myself because I'm not very familiar with this. [[Calypso]]
They are quotation marks: two give italics, three give bold, five give bold italics. It should work fine.
Here's an example: ''italics'', '''bold''', '''''bold italics'''''. [[user:AxelBoldt|AxelBoldt]]
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How do I undo a circular redirect? [[Canada/cities]] is a redirect to [[Canadian cities]], which is a redirect to [[Canada/cities]]. The content may be in a previous version [[Canadian cities]], or may have been lost altogether. We can redo the content, if necessary, but not with the double redirect in place. (I can't get to [[Canadian cities]] to find its diffs/history.) [[user:Vicki Rosenzweig|Vicki Rosenzweig]]
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The [[Ruby]] HTML tags stopped working since wikipedia switched to the new system. When I view the source code, I notice that the tags are converted to &lt;ruby&gt; instead of the original <ruby>. These tags used to work before at least in Internet explorer 5.5.
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