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This used to have the full Discord invite URL, so that including it looked like this: [{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Discord link}}] It was later simplified, so that including it looks like this:
Replacing YouTube links: Most link removals are uncontested, and the removed links are not replaced, but somewhere between 1% and 10% of links are replaced, often with discussion of why the link was valuable/not copyvio/etc. That discussion sometimes occurs on the article talk page, and sometimes occurs on the user talk page of the editor who ...
Optionally, chatters may publicly link their Wikimedia account with their Discord account for verification, which enables the ability to share non-text media. Channels exist for specific purposes, such as individual WikiProjects, and for more broad areas, like the English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons .
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media. Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers". [note 2] A server is a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice channels which can be accessed via invite links.
Because URL redirection sites are added to the blacklist whenever abuse occurs, you may create problems for future editors by using them. Adding links to web proxies is prohibited for a similar reason. Instead, one should add a link to the original URL. It is generally preferred to link to the exact destination of a link.
(There is a related set of templates for some free content resources that are not run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Rather than creating a sidebar link, they create text suitable for using as a bulleted entry in an "External links" section. A list of such templates can be found at Wikipedia:List of templates linking to other free content projects.)
A wikilink that links to a section and that appears as [[page name#section name]] can link to that section through the canonical page name (the title on the page with the actual content) or through the page name of any redirect to it, in which case the page name is the name of a redirect page.
An inline link displays remote content without the need for embedding the content. The remote content may be accessed with or without the user following the link. An inline link may display a modified version of the content; for instance, instead of an image, a thumbnail, low resolution preview, cropped section, or magnified section may be shown.