Forum:Interwiki link changes

First off, my apologies to the people who got pinged by edits to their talk pages and for creating quite a "mess" in the forums (in terms of thread display order and unread threads). This happened because I was cleaning up the interwiki link table to remove a lot of Wikia leftovers, and also converted internal links which were formatted as external ones to proper syntax (i.e.  was turned into   etc).

In total, I have removed about 400 unused interwiki prefixes. Most of these are inconsequential to editors since they weren't used anyway; however, there has been one change which is worth mentioning. The prefix "w:" is usually assigned to Wikipedia, but on Wikia sites it leads to Wikia instead. I have reset this to the default; i.e. "w:" is now a prefix for Wikipedia here.

In consequence, linking to Wikia sites has changed slightly (again, to make it consistent with MediaWiki standards). Previously you'd do something like  to link to a page on a Wikia site; now that is achieved by using   instead. For example, to link to my user page on Nukapedia you'd use.

There are also a few new prefixes:
 * for links to http://geck.bethsoft.com
 * for links to http://www.uesp.net
 * for links to http://wasteland.falloutwiki.com
 * for links to http://www.wowpedia.org

-- Porter21 (talk) 11:12, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Update 19 July 2012
Added a new prefix today:
 * for links to http://fanon.falloutwiki.com

Also changed the prefix for the Wasteland Wiki to avoid possible conflicts with regular page names; it's now:
 * for links to http://wasteland.falloutwiki.com

On Wasteland Wiki and Fallout Fanon Wiki, you can now use the following:
 * for links to http://www.falloutwiki.com

-- Porter21 (talk) 02:22, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Update 25 October 2013

 * for links to http://eternity.gamepedia.com

-- veryblackraven 10:53, 25 October 2013 (UTC)