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Wikis feature edit summaries that provide brief explanations of changes made to pages, similar to log messages in revision control systems. They allow free navigation through hypertext links, categorization, and searching capabilities, including inter-wiki navigation via WikiNodes. Various linking syntaxes exist, with free links allowing natural language terms to be linked without altering their spelling, facilitating the creation of new pages.

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Example of syntax

Wikis feature edit summaries that provide brief explanations of changes made to pages, similar to log messages in revision control systems. They allow free navigation through hypertext links, categorization, and searching capabilities, including inter-wiki navigation via WikiNodes. Various linking syntaxes exist, with free links allowing natural language terms to be linked without altering their spelling, facilitating the creation of new pages.

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The edit history view in many wiki implementations will include edit

summaries written by users when submitting changes to a page.


Similar to the function of a log message in a revision control system,
an edit summary is a short piece of text which summarizes and
perhaps explains the change, for example "Corrected grammar" or
"Fixed table formatting to not extend past page width". It is not
inserted into the article's main text.

Navigation
Traditionally, wikis offer free navigation between their pages
via hypertext links in page text, rather than requiring users to follow
a formal or structured navigation scheme. Users may also
create indexes or table of contents pages, hierarchical
categorization via a taxonomy, or other forms of ad hoc content
organization. Wiki implementations can provide one or more ways to
categorize or tag pages to support the maintenance of such index
pages, such as a backlink feature which displays all pages that link
to a given page. Adding categories or tags to a page makes it easier
for other users to find it.

Most wikis allow the titles of pages to be searched amongst, and


some offer full text search of all stored content.

Navigation between wikis


Visualization of the collaborative work in the German wiki
project Mathe für Nicht-Freaks
"WikiNode" redirects here. For the app for the Apple iPad,
see WikiNodes.
Some wiki communities have established navigational networks
between each other using a system called WikiNodes. A WikiNode is
a page on a wiki which describes and links to other, related wikis.
Some wikis operate a structure of neighbors and delegates, wherein
a neighbor wiki is one which discusses similar content or is
otherwise of interest, and a delegate wiki is one which has agreed to
have certain content delegated to it.[14] WikiNode networks act
as webrings which may be navigated from one node to another to
find a wiki which addresses a specific subject.

Linking to and naming pages


The syntax used to create internal hyperlinks varies between wiki
implementations. Beginning with the WikiWikiWeb in 1995, most
wikis used camel case to name pages,[15] which is when words in a
phrase are capitalized and the spaces between them removed. In
this system, the phrase "camel case" would be rendered as
"CamelCase". In early wiki engines, when a page was displayed, any
instance of a camel case phrase would be transformed into a link to
another page named with the same phrase.
While this system made it easy to link to pages, it had the downside
of requiring pages to be named in a form deviating from standard
spelling, and titles of a single word required abnormally capitalizing
one of the letters (e.g. "WiKi" instead of "Wiki"). Some wiki
implementations attempt to improve the display of camel case page
titles and links by reinserting spaces and possibly also reverting to
lower case, but this simplistic method is not able to correctly
present titles of mixed capitalization. For example, "Kingdom of
France" as a page title would be written as "KingdomOfFrance", and
displayed as "Kingdom Of France".

To avoid this problem, the syntax of wiki markup gained free links,
wherein a term in natural language could be wrapped in special
characters to turn it into a link without modifying it. The concept
was given the name in its first implementation, in UseModWiki in
February 2001.[16] In that implementation, link terms were wrapped
in a double set of square brackets, for example [[Kingdom of
France]]. This syntax was adopted by a number of later wiki
engines.

It is typically possible for users of a wiki to create links to pages that


do not yet exist, as a way to invite the creation of those pages. Such
links are usually differentiated visually in some fashion, such as
being colored red instead of the default blue, which was the case in
the original WikiWikiWeb, or by appearing as a question mark next
to the linked words.

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