Template talk:HistLink

Template broken

With the recent change, none of the old links for MF posts < 670000 work correctly except the one for k=165 dated 2003-12-22. Are other changes going to be made? Gary Barnes (talk) 21:46, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Undid last change plus other noted changes. The test effectively broke the history links for 90+% of MersenneForum posts. Gary Barnes (talk) 01:54, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

I think a new prefix (something unique, like MF) should be added. This would allow us to gradually convert all old-format MersenneForum post IDs to the new node IDs (using the chosen prefix). After that, the template can be flash-cut to use the node link template and User:HappyBot or the global search-replace tool can delete the prefixes from the pages. --Happy5214 (talk) 06:05, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

It's a mess since the last update/conversion of the MersForum! I've included a new Option 'M' for such cases: if the link to a first post of a thread don't show correctly, use this option instead. I've edited two entries for Riesel k=165 (entries for 2003-12-22 and 2025-03-05) and working. If there're other special cases needed post here. Karbon (talk) 09:58, 19 March 2025 (UTC)