Template:Mastodon user/doc

Please help to write the documentation; this is only a very rough draft.

• If the Wikidata entry for a subject exists, then typing {{Mastodon user}} should automatically provide the subject's Mastodon user URL; this is typically usable in WP:EXTERNALLINKs.
  • However, as of 20 December 2022, the template is hardwired to use redirects from https://mastodon.social . A technical limitation following from this hardwired choice of instance is that if the subject's Mastodon account is on mastodon.social itself, then you have to use the user id as the first parameter, without the @mastodon.social part, e.g. {{Mastodon user|eff}} for https://mastodon.social/@eff.
• If the Wikidata entry for a subject does not exist, typing {{Mastodon user|subject@instance}} should provide the URL https://mastodon.social/@subject@instance, which should redirect to the standard Mastodon URL for the address: https://instance/@subject .
  • as of 20 December 2022, the template will not correctly handle non-Wikidata addresses of the form subject@mastodon.social. A current (as of 20 December 2022) workaround is to add the address in Wikidata and then use {{Mastodon user|subject}} here on Wikipedia.