Fix BIP3 link in BIP360, touch up BIP3 reference in BIP347 #2148

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boskodev790 commented at 2:20 AM on April 23, 2026: contributor
Two BIPs added a changelog entry on 2026-01-23 referencing the updated BIP Process meta-BIP (BIP 3) with the wrong form:
- bip-0360.mediawiki:404 rendered [[bip-0003.mediawiki|BIP 003]], but the actual file in this repository is bip-0003.md (no MediaWiki variant exists). The wiki link therefore fails to resolve — readers of the bip-0360 changelog landed on a 404.
- bip-0347.mediawiki:170 wrote the same reference as bare text BIP 003 with no link at all, so readers of bip-0347 had no way to navigate to BIP 3.
Both entries were added on the same day (2026-01-23) with the same mistaken "BIP 003" (three-digit zero-pad) display text.

Fix

Rewrite both entries to use the canonical form [[bip-0003.md|BIP 3]]:
- bip-0003.md matches the actual filename.
- BIP 3 matches the display text convention the README already uses at line 40 ([[bip-0003.md|3]]). "BIP 003" with the three-digit zero-pad appears nowhere else in this repository for any BIP.
Verification
- ls bip-0003.* → bip-0003.md + bip-0003/ (image asset directory). No bip-0003.mediawiki file exists.
- Enumerated all 205 unique bip-XXXX.{mediawiki,md} filename references across every .mediawiki / .md file in the repository; bip-0003.mediawiki was the only one that does not resolve to an existing file.
- Confirmed the README (line 40) links via bip-0003.md, establishing the correct form.

Fix broken BIP 3 reference in bip-0347 and bip-0360 changelogs

Both BIPs added a changelog entry on 2026-01-23 referencing the updated
BIP Process meta-BIP with the wrong form:

- bip-0360.mediawiki:404 rendered `[[bip-0003.mediawiki|BIP 003]]`, but
  the actual file is `bip-0003.md`. The MediaWiki link therefore failed
  to resolve to the BIP 3 page on the bitcoin/bips GitHub wiki render
  and on the bips.dev / bip339 style mirrors — readers of the bip-0360
  changelog landed on a 404.

- bip-0347.mediawiki:170 wrote the same reference as bare text
  `BIP 003` with no link at all, so readers of bip-0347 had no way to
  navigate to the BIP 3 they were meant to follow.

Rewrite both entries to use the canonical form `[[bip-0003.md|BIP 3]]`:

- `bip-0003.md` matches the actual filename.
- `BIP 3` matches the display text convention the README (line 40) and
  every other BIP in this repository already use when linking to
  bip-0003 — "BIP 003" with the three-digit zero-pad appears nowhere
  else in the repo for any BIP and is not part of the display style
  described in BIP 2.

Also drops the trailing whitespace on the bip-0347 line while we are
there (the `typos` CI tolerates it but it is inconsistent with every
other line in the same changelog block).

1609a4f576

jonatack renamed this:
~~Fix broken BIP 3 reference in bip-0347 and bip-0360 changelogs~~
Fix BIP3 link in BIP360, touch up BIP3 reference in BIP347
on Apr 24, 2026
jonatack added the label Link fix on Apr 24, 2026
jonatack commented at 3:03 AM on April 24, 2026: member

ACK
jonatack merged this on Apr 24, 2026
jonatack closed this on Apr 24, 2026

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Fix BIP3 link in BIP360, touch up BIP3 reference in BIP347 #2148

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