Template:Querylink/doc

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This template is used on approximately 443,000 pages. To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template is used to create an internal link with a query string component. This addresses a limitation of the current wiki software.

The link will go to the specified page (1) with the specified query string (qs, of the form qs=name=value&name2=value2), optionally labeled with the specified caption (2), which defaults to the specified page (1).

{{Querylink|Special:Allpages|qs=namespace=1|See what people are talking about}}

Produces: See what people are talking about

The MediaWiki software does not support the use of a query string element of an URL as part of the internal wiki link syntax. This means that when wishing to link to a page that requires a query string in order to display the desired view of a page, an external link must be used. This is misleading when linking to a page within the wiki itself. For example, to create a link to this page's edit page, one might use the following wikitext: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}&action=edit edit]. This would produce the following link: edit. However, the edit page is not really an external link, so the desired result would be edit, without the external link graphic.

Internal links with a query string URL component may be achieved through the use of this querylink template. This template has been provided as a workaround for the described wiki software limitation. The template has been designed to be usable in a similar manner to creating a normal internal link, and takes two to three parameters depending upon how you wish to use it. To create the example link from before to this page's edit page using the querylink template, the following wikitext markup was used:

{{Querylink|Template:Querylink/doc|qs=action=edit|edit}}

1. The first parameter passed to the template should be the name of the internal page that you wish to link. In this case, Template:Querylink/doc.
2. The second parameter is the query string used to display the desired view of the page. It has the form qs= followed by the name and value pairs of the query string of the form name=value&name2=value2. In this case, just one name and value pair is used: action=edit.
3. The third parameter is optional. If included, the text of this parameter will be used as the display name for the link text in the article, similar to piped links. If omitted, the page name will be used instead, similar to ordinary internal links. In this case, we specify a friendly name for the link: edit.

In some cases you might prefer to produce a query string without a page name. For that, simply omit the first parameter:

{{Querylink||qs=oldid=10000|10,000th revision}}

This produces the link 10,000th revision, pointing to the location https://en.wikipedia.org/?oldid=10000

The template normally does not work as a target for #REDIRECT in redirect pages. You can subst: it to achieve that: {{subst:querylink|...}}

• {{Internal link with parameters}}
• {{Diff}}
  • Alternative: Special:Diff
• {{Oldid}}
  • Alternative: Special:Permalink
• {{Plain link}}
• Help:Magic words#Paths "fullurl:" is useful for the same purpose.