Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-3499588-20190506203145/@comment-9605025-20190507215046

If you are talking about wiki pages, there is no easy way to remove external links. Either they use the MediaWiki syntax or they don't. In either case, the easiest way to remove them is similar to removing internal/interwiki links. If they use the MediaWiki syntax and have a different display text, just delete the URL and the enclosing []. If they use the MediaWiki syntax but don't have a different display text (i.e. it displays as a number on the page), then simply remove the enclosing [] and then modify them again treating them as in the next case. If the MediaWiki syntax is not in use (i.e. the URL has simply been typed), then you need to use the nowiki tag to prevent MediaWiki's default behavior of turning text that looks like a URL into a link. You can either enclose the URL in a matching (one opening and one closing) set of nowiki tags or you can insert a self-closing nowiki tag somewhere in the middle of the URL.

Examples:

Before w3schools



https://www.w3schools.com/ w3schools



https://www.w3schools.com/

After w3schools

https://www.w3schools.com/

https://www.w3schools.com/ w3schools

https://www.w3schools.com/

https: //www.w3schools.com/