Links

Short Description
Enables you to use URLs within your wikis

Internal links

Unlike some other wiki engines Wikidot.com does not process SquashedAndCapitalized words as page links. Instead any link should be marked with 3 nesting square brackets.

If a page address contains disallowed characters the address will be "unixified" to contain only allowed chars. The displayed name however will maintain original form.

what you type what you get comments
[[[link-to-a-page]]] link-to-a-page using raw page name
[[[link "TO" ą pagE]]] link "TO" ą pagE automatic purification of destination page
[[[category: sample page]]] sample page linked to a page with category
[[[some page| custom text]]] custom text using custom text
[[[doc|Documentation]]] Documentation linking to an existing page (different color)
[[[some page|]]] some-page using page title as link text
[[[doc#toc1|Section 1]]] Section 1 linking to an anchor (first section)
[[[doc#toc1]]] doc linking to an anchor (first section)

URLs

what you type what you get comments
http://www.wikidot.com http://www.wikidot.com simple inline link
[http://www.wikidot.com wikidot] wikidot named link (custom anchor)
*http://www.wikidot.com
[*http://www.wikidot.com wikidot]
http://www.wikidot.com
wikidot
opens in a new window
[# empty link] empty link link with href="javascript:;" i.e. not leading anywhere. useful when constructing pull-down menus
[/category:page/option1/option2 link text] link text You can create shorter links to your own site with
parameters without writing whole http link.
E.g. you can use
[/blog:post/edit/true edit this post]
instead of
[http://site.wikidot.com/blog:post/edit/true edit this post]

Anchors

To place an anchor use [[# anchor-name]] syntax. To refer to an anchor (and scroll to it) use [#anchor-name text to display].

Emails

what you type what you get comments
support@example.com moc.elpmaxe|troppus#moc.elpmaxe|troppus simple inline email
[support@example.com email me!] moc.elpmaxe|troppus#!em liame custom anchor

Although we discourage anyone from putting his/her email address on the web, WikiDot engine provides a simple scrambling mechanism to prevent automated bots from reading emails. Each email is scrambled and it is decoded in the client's browser. So it is not 100% spam-safe, but much safer than plain-text emails.

InterWiki

To link directly to a Wikipedia article you can use a syntax:

what you type what you get
[wikipedia:Albert_Einstein] Albert_Einstein
[wikipedia:Albert_Einstein Albert] Albert
[wikipedia:it:Albert_Einstein Albert] Albert

Other links defined by example:

  • [google:free+wiki] - search google for the "free wiki" term
  • [dictionary:wiki] - look up definitions of the word wiki from dictionary.reference.com
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