Table of contents of this page Introduction    Ways of AutomaticLinking    CamelCase linking    WordLinking    UnderlineLinking    ProtocolLinking    InterWikiLinking    NameSpaceLinking    LinkingISBN    LinkingRFC    AutomaticLinking Options

Introduction    

The ProWiki software scans the text of the displayed page and converts all

• page names
• internet address urls
• e-mail addresses
• other recognizable patterns (ISBN-numbers, InterWiki names)

For example, if you enter this text:

TestPage http://www.google.com mailto:office@wikiservice.at

these links are rendered on the page:

TestPage

http://www.google.com

MAIL office (AT) wikiservice.at

Ways of AutomaticLinking    

In principle AutomaticLinking means that the wiki software automatically creates links based on certain irregularities of spelling or patterns in the text. The word "FrontPage" is an example.

CamelCase linking    

CamelCase is the classical form of AutomaticLinking, based on uppercase letters at the beginning and in the middle of a word. It was invented by WardCunningham as an essential part of the wiki idea. It it still used by the original WikiWikiWeb and many other wiki communities.

There is a religious war about CamelCase linking. Probably it started when Wikipedia found that CamelCase didn't fit into their encyclopedia project. It's interesting that many people thought a correct "we have good reasons to drop CamelCase" was not enough and made it an incorrect "CamelCase is not good".

There is no need to argue about that. Some people think CamelCase is terrible, some think it is important. Both can be right or wrong, depending on their application. One should be able to understand the different situations. We will show examples for that on /ProAndCon.

ProWiki lets you tune AutomaticLinking in any conceivable way to your needs.

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WordLinking    

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UnderlineLinking    

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ProtocolLinking    

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InterWikiLinking    

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NameSpaceLinking    

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LinkingISBN    

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LinkingRFC    

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AutomaticLinking Options    

These Variables can be used to tune automatic linking:

• WikiAutoLink -- turns CamelCase linking on/off
• LinkPattern -- defines the pattern used for automatic linking (usually CamelCase, note that ProWiki treats digits and the underline like lowercase characters)
• AddLetter -- a simple way to allow additional characters in the LinkPattern (common is "-")
• WordAutoLink -- turns WordLinking on/off
• WordPattern -- defines what a word is
• UnderlineAutoLink -- turns UnderlineLinking on/off
• AutoLinkStrategies -- defines how partial page names are completed to form a link
• AutoNewStrategies -- defines what page variations are offered to users when they are about to create a new page