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Link syntax for pointing to pages on Wikipedia and other mainstream sites

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Link syntax for pointing to pages on Wikipedia and other mainstream sites
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Wiki Syntax (text area, parser, external wiki, etc)
Submitted by
alain_desilets
Lastmod by
Baraka Kinywa
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Description

I have started a blog using Tiki, where I talk about what I have learned over the years on Agile Software developement in a Research and Development context.

In the three weeks I have been doing this, I find myself pointing to Wikipedia pages over and over, whenever I need to refer to a specialized concept that my readers might not understand. The way I do it now is like this. Say I want to refer to the concept of Code Refactoring. Then I will write ((code refactoring)). Then I will create a wiki page code refactoring, and put a redirect plugin on it, so that it forwards automatically to this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/code_refactoring

Then, whenever I need to refer to code refactoring, I can just write code refactoring.

It occurred to me that it might be useful to have a special wiki link syntax to make this easier. For example, I could write code refactoring, and this would be rendered as if I had typed: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/code_refactoring|code refactoring].

I can see other application of this concept for other well known sites that provide information about known entities. For example:
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(facebook(Marc Laporte))
would point to this page:


http://en-gb.facebook.com/marc.laporte.name

Solution
Workaround
Importance
3
Priority
15
Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
Ticket ID
3852
Created
Monday 18 April, 2011 11:43:08 UTC
by alain_desilets
LastModif
Monday 20 October, 2025 12:09:47 UTC


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