Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-6475116-20130829012241/@comment-5175866-20130904021159

When a page is linked to, it links to an empty url. Instead of leaving it as a file that doesn't exist on a server, the software creates a memory, of a page with that title and is remembered by mediawiki. It adds the text from the Noarticletext mediawiki page. The point of this is to encourage users to contribute their knowledge on that topic. Other times it can be a previously deleted page. Deleted pages aren't removed from the namespace forever, for sometimes they can be re-added at another time, and users contributions would be completely wiped. Even though the page was deleted, the contributions still exist from that.