This page exemplifies trickier Wikipedia syntax you might need to use. Feel free to edit source and copy it as needed.
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:
oldids
):
Special:Diff/623998644/927024688 or
[2] .And you can, of course, use a nicer name for any of these links.
As I describe elsewhere, I prefer the {{ sfn}} template for citations. If you are using the VisualEditor or {{ cite}} template, you'll have to do the following.
The brontosaurus is thin at the head. [1]: 5 Then it becomes much thicker in the middle. [1]: 7 Then thin again at the tail [1]: 9
The Ultrasaurus has a long neck. [1]: 43
In this case, we read in Elk (on page 5) claimed that Dilinger (1968) reported that the Ultrasaurus had a long neck.]
This page exemplifies trickier Wikipedia syntax you might need to use. Feel free to edit source and copy it as needed.
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:
oldids
):
Special:Diff/623998644/927024688 or
[2] .And you can, of course, use a nicer name for any of these links.
As I describe elsewhere, I prefer the {{ sfn}} template for citations. If you are using the VisualEditor or {{ cite}} template, you'll have to do the following.
The brontosaurus is thin at the head. [1]: 5 Then it becomes much thicker in the middle. [1]: 7 Then thin again at the tail [1]: 9
The Ultrasaurus has a long neck. [1]: 43
In this case, we read in Elk (on page 5) claimed that Dilinger (1968) reported that the Ultrasaurus had a long neck.]