diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/brokenlinks.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/brokenlinks.pm
index cf8f25281..f8d44892b 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/brokenlinks.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/brokenlinks.pm
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ sub preprocess (@) {
 	add_depends($params{page}, $params{pages});
 	
 	my %broken;
+	my $discussion=gettext("Discussion");
 	foreach my $page (pagespec_match_list([keys %links],
 			$params{pages}, location => $params{page})) {
-		my $discussion=gettext("Discussion");
 		my %seen;
 		foreach my $link (@{$links{$page}}) {
 			next if $seen{$link};
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
index 04ad6ed23..2fbb45e02 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
@@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ sub preprocess_inline (@) {
 		}
 		my $template=HTML::Template->new(@params) unless $raw;
 	
+		my $discussionlink=lc(gettext("Discussion"))
+			if $config{discussion};
+
 		foreach my $page (@list) {
 			my $file = $pagesources{$page};
 			my $type = pagetype($file);
@@ -371,7 +374,6 @@ sub preprocess_inline (@) {
 					my $file = $pagesources{$page};
 					my $type = pagetype($file);
 					if ($config{discussion}) {
-						my $discussionlink=lc(gettext("Discussion"));
 						if ($page !~ /.*\/\Q$discussionlink\E$/ &&
 						    (length $config{cgiurl} ||
 						     exists $links{$page."/".$discussionlink})) {