Links

Wikilinks


[[Star Wars]]              a link, labeled by the page name
[[Star Wars|the saga]]     a link with a custom label
[[Star Wars#Plot]]         straight to a section anchor

The label may contain anything except a closing bracket; the target may not contain | or ]. Hovering a wikilink shows the target page’s description as a tooltip.

Link trail

Letters written immediately after a wikilink join its label — handy for plurals and inflections:


[[cat]]s        renders as "cats", all one link

The trail only absorbs ASCII letters and digits — for other scripts, use an explicit label.

Pipe trick

An empty label asks the parser to derive one: it strips a trailing parenthetical, or everything from the first comma.


[[Page (disambiguation)|]]     label: "Page"
[[Seoul, Korea|]]              label: "Seoul"

The slash grammar

Titles have a small grammar around the slash:

You write	Meaning
`[[Star Wars/Rey]]`	the subpage Rey under Star Wars (one level max)
`[[TCP\/IP]]`	a literal slash — one page named “TCP/IP”
`[[A\\B]]`	a literal backslash
`[[//example.com]]`	an external link (protocol-relative, upgraded to https)

When you link a subpage from its parent page or from a sibling subpage, the default label is just the leaf — [[Star Wars/Rey]] shows as “Rey” when written on a Star Wars page.

Different from MediaWiki: titles here are fully case-sensitive — [[page]] and [[Page]] are different pages, and there is no automatic first-letter capitalization. There are also no namespaces in links: [[Template:Foo]] is just a page literally named “Template:Foo”.

Also different: there are no red links. Links to pages that don’t exist look like any other link — following one lands on the create page.

External links

Only the bracketed form is linked:


[https://example.com the label]      labeled external link
[https://example.com]                auto-numbered: [1], [2], …

Allowed schemes: http, https, ftp, mailto, and protocol-relative //host. External links render with a small arrow marker and nofollow.

Different from MediaWiki: bare URLs in running text are not auto-linked — visit https://example.com stays plain text. Bracket it.

Magic links

Three classic magic links work anywhere in text:

You write	Links to
`ISBN 978-0-13-468599-1`	the book-sources page
`RFC 9110`	the RFC at ietf.org
`PMID 31452104`	the paper at PubMed

Wrap them in <nowiki> when you want the plain text.