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Magic links are automatic links for certain unique identifiers that require no markup.
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ISBN[edit]
Main page: Wikipedia:ISBN
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. The created link is to Special:BookSources. The allowable formats are:
- 10 or 13 digits
- optional delimiting hyphens or spaces
- 1 check character
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ISBN 978-0-306-40615-7 |
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ISBN 1413304540 |
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PMID[edit]
A PMID (PubMed identifier or PubMed unique identifier) is a unique number assigned to a PubMed record.
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PMID 11209037 |
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RFC[edit]
a Request for Comments (RFC) is a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
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RFC 5620 |
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Suppressing the link[edit]
If no link is desired, insert <nowiki /> between the identifier and the value.
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ISBN <nowiki />978-0-306-40615-7 |
ISBN 978-0-306-40615-7 |
Technical[edit]
Magic links are rendered by Parser.php. The links for PMID and RFC are rendered by MediaWiki interface pages:
- PMID: MediaWiki:Pubmedurl
- RFC: MediaWiki:Rfcurl
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