Editing MycoTaxa:Village pump (technical)/Archive 1 (section)

== Missing links in some skins ==

The skins Classic, Cologne Blue and Nostalgia don't have the links "Cite this article" and "Permanent link". Is that intentional? [[Help:Preferences#Skin]] says "Some links are not present in every skin", but doesn't mention these links. It seems impractical to not have consistent links. [[Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia]] assumes "Cite this article" is there, and people asking for citation help at [[Wikipedia:Help desk]] are often told to click "Cite this article". [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] 00:25, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

:It is intentional for the Classic and Nostalgia skins at least - they are throwbacks to how Wikipedia looked before the Monobook skin was invented - see [[Wikipedia:Mediawiki 1.3]] and [[Wikipedia:Archive/Petition for the return of the Old Wikipedia]] for some discussion about, among other things, the then new Monobook skin. The [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-06-27/MediaWiki 1.5|permanent link feature was added in June 2005]] and the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-11-28/Technology report|cite this article link was added in November 2005]], so adding those links to the nostalgia and classic skins would strictly be an [[anachronism]]. I'm not sure about the design of the Cologne Blue skin, but [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PHP_script_new_features&oldid=634092 it was included in the first version of MediaWiki]. I'm not sure how you would add the links either, seeing as different JavaScript files for each skin like [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]] are deprecated. Actually, IIRC the three skins you mention don't even support JavaScript. '''[[User:Graham87|Graham]]'''[[User talk:Graham87|<span style="color:green;">87</span>]] 09:37, 22 October 2007 (UTC)