Forum:Can you use Special:Outbound only for http please

Can you only enable Special:Outbound for outbound links to http:// pages, I post irc:// links on quite a few wikis, and the link type and image next to the link should be different, instead, mediawiki treats an IRC link as an outbound link with special:outbound, and therefore users aren't informed that the link is actually IRC. Please keep it to http:// (which is the majority of outbound links) Random Time  11:43, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you give us the link to some of these pages? --Uberfuzzy 16:35, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * I can - http://www.wowwiki.com/WoWWiki:IRC shows it a lot :) 16:58, October 27, 2009 (UTC)

I use irc:// style links in my personal Monaco toolbox for easy access to the channels for live Wikia help and live SMW help. When following either of those links the Special:Outbound page is not used. Whether or not you can also take advantage of this method for bypassing the 5 second redirect delay I do not know but now you know an alternative to consider. In Special:MyPage/Monaco-toolbox: --najevi 01:07, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * irc://irc.freenode.net/wikia |Wikia live help
 * irc://irc.freenode.net/semanticmediawiki |SMW live help

Well, I would like to point out something. The Special:Outbound page, and its waittime is only shown to logged out users (if logged in users do see these links for some reason, there is a check for that, and an immediate redirect happens), so using the personal toolbox is moot, because that means your logged in, which mean you have no wait to avoid. We are aware of this concern this linking is causing, and are looking into finetuning which types of links are modified. --Uberfuzzy 11:47, October 31, 2009 (UTC)


 * In most wikis, logged in, many times I do see the outbound links Random Time  13:25, November 4, 2009 (UTC)


 * Purging should help.--AB 14:18, November 4, 2009 (UTC)


 * That's rather odd - Randomtime, any specific articles, or specific wikis?
 * We should be okay for removing Outbound from non-http:// links by the way, but I can't promise anything yet. 15:16, November 4, 2009 (UTC)


 * The html text you get sent, is based on the last person to view that page. If it was a logged in person, its same as what you would see, if its a logged out person, its different. Until now, there was no difference in this text, and you most often then not were seeing the page as if you were logged out (atleast the cached html part anyway). Now that we're rendering it slightly different for IN/OUT, you might sometimes see the OUT version (containing Special:Outbound links). And it works in reverse. If the last person to save, or first view page is logged in, then the logged out people see that version (without Outbound links). We are indeed making changes to the way this works, and what links are going to be routed through it. Stay Tuned. --Uberfuzzy 15:19, November 4, 2009 (UTC)