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