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The Wayback Machine is a valuable tool for dead link repair. The simplest way to get the list of links from the Wayback Machine is to click on the row. You can also load the results manually and paste them in using the "Use archive URL" option. The software will attempt to insert the URL using the archiveurl parameter of {}.
If URLs in citation template parameters contain certain characters, then they will not display and link correctly. Those characters need to be percent-encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by %20. To encode the URL, replace the following characters with:
Checklinks (unavailable) (check and correct other links) ProveIt (addition of citations and references) Open access bot (add open access links to citations) MW (Firefox Ubiquity script. It uses the MediaWiki API to suggest and insert an internal link.) Additional tools which use OAuth can be found on Special:Tags.
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This tool is akin to a spell checker for links, giving the user a choice of links when the user clicks on the ambiguous link. The tool features an interface designed to be fast and intuitive, using pre-caching to load pages and relevancy scores before you start.
Views of up to 5000 edits per page are possible by modifying the number in the page's URL. This panel contains links to additional tools relating to a user's contributions (via MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer and MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-anon). Not shown in this example:
When MediaWiki was created, it was typical for wikis to require text like "WorldWideWeb" to create a link to a page about the World Wide Web; links in MediaWiki, on the other hand, are created by surrounding words with double square brackets, and any spaces between them are left intact, e.g. [[World Wide Web]]. This change was logical for the ...