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A '''Wiki link''' is an easily formatted link to other articles within the wiki or external to the wiki site. | A '''Wiki link''' is an easily formatted link to other articles within the wiki or external to the wiki site. | ||
==Examples== | |||
You can either use the name of an article as a link, or you can pipe the link so that text appears that is different from the article's title. Links to external sites are formatted--and appear--slightly differently. | You can either use the name of an article as a link, or you can pipe the link so that text appears that is different from the article's title. Links to external sites are formatted--and appear--slightly differently. | ||
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<nowiki>[[wiki]]s</nowiki> | <nowiki>[[wiki]]s</nowiki> | ||
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<nowiki>re[[wiki]]fication</nowiki> | |||
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==Capitalization== | |||
The wiki software is somewhat sensitive to capitalization: | |||
* To make it easier to use article titles in sentences, the ''first'' character of a title is ''not'' case sensitive; for example, [[wiki]] and [[Wiki]] go to the same article; so do [[runtime database]] and [[Runtime database]]. | |||
* The rest of the letters ''are'' case sensitive. For example, [[COLLADA]] and [[coLLada]] do ''not'' go to the same article; neither do [[runtime database]] and [[Runtime Database]]. | |||
[[Category:Help|Linking within wiki articles]][[Category:Wiki terminology]] | [[Category:Help|Linking within wiki articles]][[Category:Wiki terminology]] | ||
Revision as of 00:48, 24 April 2007
A Wiki link is an easily formatted link to other articles within the wiki or external to the wiki site.
Examples
You can either use the name of an article as a link, or you can pipe the link so that text appears that is different from the article's title. Links to external sites are formatted--and appear--slightly differently.
| Link format | Looks like |
|---|---|
[[wiki]] |
wiki |
[[wiki]]s |
wikis |
re[[wiki]]fication |
rewikification |
[[wiki|some wiki software]] |
some wiki software |
http://www.collada.org |
http://www.collada.org |
[http://www.collada.org] |
[1] |
[http://www.collada.org Collada web site] |
Collada web site |
[[Help:Adding a new article]] |
Help:Adding a new article |
[[Help:Adding a new article|]] |
Adding a new article |
Capitalization
The wiki software is somewhat sensitive to capitalization:
- To make it easier to use article titles in sentences, the first character of a title is not case sensitive; for example, wiki and Wiki go to the same article; so do runtime database and Runtime database.
- The rest of the letters are case sensitive. For example, COLLADA and coLLada do not go to the same article; neither do runtime database and Runtime Database.