Re: [Wikitech-l] Links to Wikipedia with .htm at the end

I have noticed that a number (hundreds) of links to Wikipedia exist that are of the form http://xx.wikipedia.org/wiki/whatever.htm See this Google search for an overview: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22wikipedia.org%2Fwiki+*+htm%22 Is this way of linking a consequence of some bad editing tools appending .htm automatically, or were these links once actually valid? If they were, should they somehow be made to continue working? I saw at least one printed scientific work using such a link: http://scindeks.nb.rs/article.aspx?artid=0353-79190804835R&lang=en cites http://Wikipedia.org/wiki/contraception.htm On a related note, an interesting example I noticed in http://www.library.ait.ac.th/ThesisSearch/summary/Debajit%20Dutta.pdf that links to www.wiki.wikipedia.org/wiki/urban_heat_island.htm - did this www.wiki.wikipedia.org server really exist? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l