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Usage

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This template create links to "oldids"; that is, links to old versions of a wiki page. It then labels those '''old''' versions the '''current''' one, unless you've supplied both the name of the page and the oldid.

Every historical version of a page has a revision ID, which you can find from the links on the history of the page, or from the URL of the old revision. Given a page name and a revision IDs of it, you can construct a link to that particular version.

If you only have the revision ID and not the page name, consider using {{tlx|oldid2}}, which requires only the revision ID and can still construct a link.

== Usage ==
{{tlx|oldid|<var>page</var>|<var>oldid</var>|<var>label</var>}}

{| class="wikitable"
! style="width:33%;" | code !! result
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{oldid|Main Page|589841|Link to a 2003 version of the Main Page}}</nowiki></code>
| {{oldid|Main Page|589841|Link to a 2003 version of the Main Page}}
* The '''label=''' parameter (parameter number 3) should be the link text description (optional).
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{oldid|Main Page|589841}}</nowiki></code>
| {{oldid|Main Page|589841}}
* The '''oldid=''' parameter (parameter number 2) should be the known revision number.
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{oldid|Main Page}}</nowiki></code>
| {{oldid|Main Page}}(pretty useless)
* The '''page=''' parameter (parameter number 1) should be the name of the page.
* The '''oldid=''' parameter (parameter number 2) can be '''cur''' (or leave it empty) for the current version.
|}

== Alias ==
* {{tl|Permalink}}

== See also ==
For more detail see wikipedia page [[wikipedia:Creating Template:Oldid]]

== TemplateData ==
{{TemplateData header}}
<templatedata>
{
"description": "A template to link to old versions of a wiki page using the revision ID, which can be found in the history of the page.",
"params": {
"1": {
"label": "Page title",
"description": "The page whose older revision will be linked to.",
"type": "string/wiki-page-name",
"default": "",
"required": true
},
"2": {
"label": "Oldid",
"description": "If not specified, links to the current version. Every historical version of a page has a revision ID, which you can find from the history of the page, or from the URL of the old revision. This should be a long number, like \"560214444\" (without the quotes).",
"type": "number",
"default": "",
"required": false
},
"3": {
"type": "string/line",
"label": "Label",
"description": "If not specified, label of link will be \"Old revision of [the name of the page]\" (without the quotes). The label of the link that will be created.",
"required": false
}
}
}
</templatedata>

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[[Category:Oldid templates]]
[[Category:Internal link templates]]

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