Help:Permanent link

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A permanent link (or

internal links always lead to the current version of a page, but the permalink leads to the text as it was at that point in time; the text does not include any edits made since. Unlike what the name suggests, the permalink does not show exactly the same page, though; only the main text is guaranteed to be retained. Certain elements still update dynamically like pictures,[1] templates such as infoboxes with text and images placed in the page's right-top corner, as well as any content transcluded from other pages. In other words, the permalink displays what the article would look like today if someone reverted
to the revision in question.

Creating a permanent link URL from the page history tab of a page.

A permalink can be made by clicking 'Permanent link' in the sidebar's toolbox or by accessing a prior revision of a page from its page history tab. Both of these will display that version and the page's URL can be used as the target of the permalink.

[[Special:PermanentLink/oldid]] or the shortcut [[Special:Permalink/oldid]] can be used to make a

wikilink when this is preferred over a URL. oldid is the revision number in the URL of a permanent link; for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&oldid=402359171, which is thus equivalent to [[Special:Permalink/402359171]] or Special:Permalink/402359171
.

The normal rules for wikilinks apply: such as regarding

wikitext
:

Link to Wikitext Result to reader
any page, in any namespace in Wikipedia: [[Special:Permalink/402359171|a version of Wikipedia:Help desk page]] a version of Wikipedia:Help desk page
a section of any page at Wikipedia:
Note the section title is appended to the revision ID. See Help:Section § Section linking. 		[[Special:Permalink/402359171#December_14|a particular section at a version of WP:HD]] a particular section at a version of WP:HD
any page in a
Help:Interwikimedia links § Prefix codes for linking to projects
. 		[[wikt:Special:Permalink/27434896|wiktionary:scribble in July 2014]]

[[c:Special:Permalink/90453750|Commons Eiffel tower sunset old rev]]

wiktionary:scribble in July 2014

Commons Eiffel tower sunset old rev

a
sister project page:
Note the use of prefix codes q: and m:
. 		[[q:Special:Permalink/2220436#Le_Petit_Prince_(1943)|Feb 2017 rev of ''Little Prince'' quotes]]

[[m:Special:Permalink/18885973#Translations|old rev of Meta VisEd § Translations]]

Feb 2017 rev of Little Prince quotes

old rev of Meta VisEd § Translations

any page in
link to foreign-language Wikiprojects
. 		[[:fr:Special:Permalink/385114|oldest copy]] of [[:fr:Agra|]] at [[:fr:|French Wikipedia]]

[[:ja:Special:Permalink/676516|oldest rev]] of [[:ja:Sydney|]] at [[:ja:|Japanese Wikipedia]]


oldest copy of Agra at French Wikipedia

oldest rev of Sydney at Japanese Wikipedia

the most current version of a page (not a permanent link; this is just a plain wikilink) [[Wikipedia:Help desk]] Wikipedia:Help desk

See also

This page is referenced in the Wikipedia Glossary.

Notes

  1. ^ The most obvious differences are if images that existed at the time are subsequently deleted. They would be shown as red links, and inevitably the layout of the article would suffer.
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