X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/e0f7bbcadccb94f883211bd1e8de0ad71daf2c4a..a27b1615ad083d8aa0136a8014bcb513a9076379:/basewiki/wikilink.mdwn diff --git a/basewiki/wikilink.mdwn b/basewiki/wikilink.mdwn index 21f10a7dd..8eb5225fe 100644 --- a/basewiki/wikilink.mdwn +++ b/basewiki/wikilink.mdwn @@ -5,15 +5,19 @@ For example "\[[WikiLink]]". If you ever need to write something like "\[[WikiLink]] without creating a wikilink, just prefix it with a "\", like "\\\\[[WikiLink]]". -Note that there are some special [[SubPage/LinkingRules]] that come into -play when linking between [[SubPage]]s. +There are some special [[SubPage/LinkingRules]] that come into play when +linking between [[SubPages|SubPage]]. -WikiLinks can be entered in any case you like, the page they link to is -always lowercased. - -Note that if the file linked to by a WikiLink looks like an image, it will +Also, if the file linked to by a WikiLink looks like an image, it will be displayed inline on the page. +WikiLinks are matched with page names in a case-insensitive manner, so you +don't need to worry about getting the case the same, and can capitalise +links at the start of a sentence, and so on. + It's also possible to write a WikiLink that uses something other than the page name as the link text. For example "\[[foo_bar|SandBox]]" links to the SandBox page, but the link will appear like this: [[foo_bar|SandBox]] + +Note that you cannot use spaces in WikiLinks. Replace spaces with +underscores.