Extension talk:ShortLinksParser

isn't this extension redundant due to mediawiki's interwiki link mechanism? eg. [[w:Help]] produces w:Help. 60.240.122.215 01:58, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

This extension is for mediawiki 1.5. I can only assume that interwiki linking wasn't present or was buggy at the time. --Skizzerz 02:04, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

At the moment i see 2 differences:

• you can define several placeholders in a ShortLink (in the next version you can also overload a ShortLink with different a different number of params pointing to different URLs)
• you have a div box with a unique CSS-class around every ShortLink which you can use to customize the look of a link (e.g. using an icon in front of every link)

But i should point this out and make a reference to (mw:Extension:SpecialInterwiki). Thanks! --Cagey83 08:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)