Help:Permanent link

A permanent link (or permalink) is a link to a specific version of a wiki page. Unlike normal links which show the current version of a page, it shows the page as it was at the time that version was created, and does not include any edits made to that page since the link is created. A permalink is made by clicking 'permanent link' in the sidebar's toolbox or by accessing a prior version of a page from its Page history tab. Both of these will display that version and the page's URL can be used as the target of the permalink.

See Help:Page history for a little more detail.

Example

 * A permanent link to a version of WikiQueer:Help desk on 14 December 2010 at 16:40 (produced by  WikiQueer:Help desk on 14 December 2010 at 16:40 )

Compare:
 * A wikilink to the current version of WikiQueer:Help desk (produced by  WikiQueer:Help desk )
 * A URL link to the current version of WikiQueer:Help desk (produced by  WikiQueer:Help desk )