Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-452-20140917000024/@comment-131168-20140917051526

It doesn't sound like there's much advantage in many cases. One part does remind me of something I've set up on a few related wikis, though:


 * Interwiki table
 * If I a wiki wanted to change which of 2 similar wikis they were affiliated with, then "w:c:ghostbusters" could theoretically be changed to point to "the-real-ghostbusters.wikia", which would definitely be useful. However, I assume that is something that only Wikia Staff could do, and something they're incredibly unlikely to do, because w:c:ghostbusters should always point to ghostbusters.wikia on all wikis.

I always thought the Slimer link format was too long for convenience, so for a handful of related wikis I set up templates specifically for them so links could instead be made with something short like. It hadn't struck me as an advantage before, but such a template could be modified to point to anything, Wikia or external. I'm not sure if making a template like this create a link in external link style would add to Special:LinkSearch.