Board Thread:Script Suggestions/@comment-5645428-20160225053151/@comment-24473195-20160308081703

Josephyr wrote: Not necessarily a patch, but a suggestion:

I was considering testing this out on Community Central. And while it doesn't support threads/message walls, could a provision be somehow made for archived message wall pages? Example: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Message_Wall:Inyuki/User_talk_archive

Or even, maybe it could be upgraded to work on threads (since 90% of the broken links on Central are on threads :-[ )... I know, I know, that's a difficult thing, but let a fella dream. ;-)

Cheers hombre,

It is entirely possible to change any wikitext page. So it should work with your example page.

Unfortunately, the threads (e.g. new message walls, article discussions, and new forum)  use a different way of storing data. Each comment or post is a separate entry in a database unlike talk pages which are just  a really inefficient "article" with signatures. The MessageWall api doesn't seem to have any function to search for a specific text and return its ID, so that's where the problem comes from.

That being said, making this work on the  first post in a thread  is easy  (Thread:8646), changing anything else requires some real Macguyver techniques. I also wanted this functionality, so perhaps it'll be implemented if someone (e.g  code-editors here) can think of a less hacky way of doing this.