User:SPage (WMF)/ExternalLinks

An external link in Flow (example) appears as

An external link here to href="http://www.mullie.eu is translated by Parser/Linker to...

An external link in wikitext markup is translated by Parser/Linker to...


 * No rel="nofollow" is {[bug|66289}}
 * Missing styling of external links is

styling different kinds of URL links
Vector no longer gives these special icons universally, but other skins and wikis do. See w:Help:External_link_icons in monobook vs in vector for examples. (Enwiki's Vector still adds icons for pdf and https - I'm not sure where the override is.)

File types

 * PDF
 * http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/xml/AdobeXMLFormsSamples.pdf


 * MP3
 * http://archive.org/download/testmp3testfile/mpthreetest.mp3


 * https
 * https://www.archive.org/

URL formats

 * ftp://example.com/this/that
 * mailto:jdoe@example.com

getLocalURL / getFullURL
getLocalURL produces. But you can't put this in a [ ] link, it doesn't work.
 * [/wiki/index.php/Special:UserLogin?returnto=Talk%3AMain_Page&returntoquery=debug%3D1%26x%3D log in]

getFullURL produces, which does work in a [ ] link
 * [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/index.php/Special:UserLogin?returnto=Talk%3AMain_Page&returntoquery=debug%3D1%26x%3D log in]