Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-1091639-20130710054053/@comment-4674838-20130711020429

Hi, the reason for this switch was, at the time, there was a bug where none of the interwiki links on Help: pages were functioning properly.

For example, a link like http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Community Central or w:c:community:Community Central would take you to the Community Central page on the local wiki you were currently viewing the Help: page at, instead of properly taking you to the Community Central page on the community.wikia.com domain.

A fix for this was to use a link of the form http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=Community_Central, where routing the link through index.php made it work properly.

I switched the links to use this style of URL so that they would function again, and also used the #NewWindowLink parser so that the links would open in a new tab in the web browser, rather than the current tab. The reasoning for that was that, if someone is reading a help page on their local wiki, it can be very confusing to click a link and have it suddenly take you to a different site and then figure out where you are / how to get back to your wiki.

However, I believe the bug with the Shared Help has since been fixed and normal interwiki links on Help: pages do work normally now.