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Using WikiSyntax, you can create links to other pages without having to know HTML. You can use three types of links in a Wiki page (as well as other contexts that accept WikiSyntax, including articles, blogs, comments, and forums):

• Links to Wiki pages
• Links to external Wiki pages
• Links to Web pages

For each type of link, you can choose whether to display a description. If you provide a description, the page will display the description (not the link address) as a clickable hyperlink.

Quick Reference

Link to a Wiki page	WikiPageName or ((Wiki Page Name))
Link to an external Wiki page
Link to a Web page	[http://www.somesite.org] or [http://www.somesite.org| Some Site!]

Linking to Wiki Pages

Wikis are designed to detect Wiki page names automatically and to format them as hyperlinks, which can be clicked to display the linked page. Either of the following is a valid Wiki page name:

• TheWikiWay Two or more words are stuck together (no spaces), and each is capitalized.
• ((The Wiki Way)) This method is used to refer to Wiki page names that include spaces.

If you would like to add a description, type the link like this:

• ((TheWikiWay|The Wiki Way))

Be sure to include the vertical bar character (|).

When you add a description, the Wiki page will show the description text as a clickable link.

Tip Sometimes the Wiki software mistakenly thinks a word with odd capitalization is a Wiki page name. It places a question mark after the word to indicate that it cannot find a page with that name. To keep the Wiki software from formatting a word as a Wiki page name, surround the word with doubled, reverse quotation marks, as in the following example: ))WordStar((.

Linking to Web Pages

You can link to any page on the Web that has a valid URL. By default, Tiki creates a local cache of the page so that it will be available even if the remote Web site is down. In addition, Tiki opens external Web pages in a new browser window. (See WikiLinkingAdmin for information on changing these administrative options.)

To link to a Web page, enclose the URL within square brackets, as in the following example:

• [http://www.virginia.edu]

The link looks like this: http://www.virginia.edu.

The Wiki page will display the link text (http://www.virginia.edu) as a clickable link.

If you would like to add a description, type the link like this:

• [http://www.virginia.edu|University of Virginia]

The Wiki page will display the description (University of Virginia) as a clickable link.

Important: If you are linking to a PDF file, a multimedia file, or any file other than an HTML page, please include the nocache directive, as in the following examples:

• [http://www.somesite.org/docs/chapter1.pdf |nocache]
• [http://www.somesite.org/docs/chapter1.pdf|Chapter One|nocache]

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This page is for the latest released stable version or release candidate(not stuff in CVS).

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