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The document discusses different types of wikis, including neighbor wikis and delegate wikis, and explains the evolution of hyperlink syntax in wikis. Initially, camel case was used for naming pages, which posed challenges for standard spelling, leading to the introduction of free links in 2001. This allowed users to create links without altering the original text, facilitating the creation of new pages in a more user-friendly manner.

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Example of syntax

The document discusses different types of wikis, including neighbor wikis and delegate wikis, and explains the evolution of hyperlink syntax in wikis. Initially, camel case was used for naming pages, which posed challenges for standard spelling, leading to the introduction of free links in 2001. This allowed users to create links without altering the original text, facilitating the creation of new pages in a more user-friendly manner.

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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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