Tiddlywiki5: Missing tiddler "ExternalText"

[dubiouscript]

as mentioned in 'Limited implementation of external text tiddlers in the browser' - https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/a204784c0c7ccc9b3ccfdb9d5230017cdcc19e90 from
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1917#issuecomment-136000729

the link https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#Alice%20in%20Wonderland

points to /#ExternalText

however it is missing
https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#ExternalText

this missing link is also referenced more recently @ https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2796#issuecomment-286111632
http://tiddlywiki.com/#ExternalText

nothing appears in search of tiddlywiki.com

what happened to '/#ExternalText' ?

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[Jermolene]

Hi @dubiouscript I'm afraid that ExternalText has never existed. It's supposed to be about using the _canonical_uri field to reference an external file for the text of a tiddler that is loaded lazily on demand. You can see it in action at https://tiddlywiki.com/#Alice%20in%20Wonderland

[dubiouscript]

hi @Jermolene thanks!..
so http://tiddlywiki.com/#ExternalText is an intentionally dead/dangling link ?
or
it should be documentation that has not yet been created ?

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https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/search?p=5&q=_canonical_uri&unscoped_q=_canonical_uri

[kookma]

@Jermolene
I think @duarteframos is right. Look at
https://tiddlywiki.com/#Alice%20in%20Wonderland

I think the wikified ExternalText caused the confusion! Please correct it as external text

[Jermolene]

Hi @kookma there are many missing links in the the tiddlywiki.com documentation; the best solution in cases like this would be to write the necessary documentation entry bringing together the information about the feature.

[kookma]

@Jermolene
I did not follow correctly! Do you mean I should create a PR and correct the missing link in tiddlywiki.com? If so, I will do

[Jermolene]

Hi @kookma I wasn't suggesting that you should specifically fix this: it's part of a bigger problem that we have many missing links in the docs, which does confuse people sometimes. If we want to tackle it then I think it needs to be systematic: e.g. we make a list of the missing tiddlers and allocate them to volunteers who work through a checklist for each one.