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tvtropes.org/Namespace/Title works. The pmwiki.php part can be excluded. It auto-redirects to the proper page.
For links inside the wiki, you just need Namespace/Title. For links outside the wiki, you need the full URL. I wasn't aware of the shortcut mentioned above, though... or at least I had forgotten about it.
https://tvtropes.org/Main/Tropes
gives you https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes
We don't have a link shortener like youtu.be and we don't have coded article IDs, like YouTube's video IDs.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
okay, I figured there wasn't much to be done about it as is. Thanks for telling me about cutting out the pmwiki/pmwiki.php part! Perhaps I could suggest a link shortener that goes by a hash of the "namespace/title" ID to the wishlist? Just an idea...
Christian, gamer, programmer, brony, and quadriplegic (paralyzed mid-thorax down). I am filled with determination...
is there any way to abbreviate a link to something in the main namespace, for such purposes as sharing a link to a trope somewhere the full URL would either not work or not be convenient? Links can get kind of long and some instances (You Tube, for example) don't have any way to hide the URL in a hyperlink, so cutting out the"pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/" somehow would be handy.