Help:Compact links

Compact links are links using a Base64 scheme to link to, and .CiteRef::gh:smw:3017 This feature was introduced with.

The mentioned special pages can contain arbitrary text elements and therefore become difficult to transfer when its length exceeds a certain character length. A compact link will thus be encoded and compressed to ensure that it can be handled more easily when referring to it as an URL representation.

Example
Special:Ask/-5B-5BProperty:%2B-5D-5D-20-5B-5BCategory:Lorem-20ipsum-5D-5D/-3FHas-20description%3DDescription/-3FHas-20type/mainlabel%3D/limit%3D50/offset%3D50/format%3Dtable/class%3Ddatatable Special:Ask/cl:YzpFirEKwzAMRD-oGIcWLwEvaSgdOvQXlEQuAjsykjLk75u6Q-CGd-_OhcGF4S1cUWzvLy6Mv1w714Y7GH5Y9v7FguXQVHUr_5N3t8cT9JAL6ixUjXiN48nnwfaKvgCtGSbM0WcqZDF0nlNSbJRYClg0mDL6OYNqXMCg9S8
 * Plain link
 * Compact link

Note

 * Compact links are not meant to used as a short-url service, yet in some instances the generate URL can be comparatively shorter than the plain URL.
 * The generated link has no security relevance therefore is is not cryptographically hashed or secure and should not be seen as such, it is foremost to "compact" an URL address.