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This template is intended to be useful for creating links to "[[Help:Diff|diffs]]"; that is, links to pages that show the differences between two versions of a wiki page.<br />
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Every version of a page has a revision ID, which you can find from the [[Help:Page history|history]] of the page by looking at the link for the timestamp, which is of the form:<br />
http[s]://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SomePageName&oldid=442212827<br />
The number after <kbd>oldid=</kbd> is the revision ID.<br />
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This template does not require the page name, and provides a diff between a specified revision ID and the one immediately before it (i.e. what changed at a certain ID).<br />
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== Usage ==<br />
:{{tlx|Diff2 |''oldid'' |''section'' |''label''}}<br />
* <kbd>''oldid''</kbd>&nbsp;– The base ID onto which the diff is generated<br />
* <kbd>''section''</kbd>&nbsp;– (optional) The section (anchor) within the page<br />
* <kbd>''label''</kbd>&nbsp;– (optional) Text to display as link. No label will give a numbered link.<br />
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If 3 parameters are specified (i.e. parameter <nowiki>{{{3}}}</nowiki> exists), parameter <nowiki>{{{2}}}</nowiki> is the ''section'', and parameter <nowiki>{{{3}}}</nowiki> is the ''label''. Otherwise, parameter <nowiki>{{{2}}}</nowiki>, if present, is the ''label'' (and the link is to the whole page).<br />
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(Consequently, specifying a ''section'' but no ''label'' can be achieved by leaving the ''label'' blank save for its [[pipe character]], as in the fourth example below.)<br />
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== Examples ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Code<br />
! Output<br />
|-<br />
| {{tlx|Diff2|123456789}}<br />
| {{Diff2|123456789}}<br />
|-<br />
| {{tlx|Diff2|123456789|SomeUser's edit to "Some article name"}}<br />
| {{Diff2|123456789|SomeUser's edit to "Some article name"}}<br />
|-<br />
| {{tlx|Diff2|123456789|External links|SomeUser's edit to "Some article name"}}<br />
| {{Diff2|123456789|External links|SomeUser's edit to "Some article name"}}<br />
|-<br />
| {{tlx|Diff2|123456789|External links&#124;}}<br />
| {{Diff2|123456789|External links|}}<br />
|}<br />
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== Redirects ==<br />
You can use the following text in place of "Diff2":<br />
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* {{tl|Dif}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* {{Tl|Diff}}<br />
* {{Tl|Diff3}}&nbsp;– same as {{Tlf|Diff2}}, but does not support section links<br />
* {{Tl|Diff4}}<br />
* {{Tl|Cross-wiki diff}}<br />
* {{Tl|Cross-wiki language diff}}<br />
* {{Tl|Oldid}}<br />
* {{Tl|Oldid2}}<br />
* [[Special:Diff]]<br />
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