A
free link is a page name reference that doesn't follow the
WikiWord convention.
Often, there is no natural
WikiWord for naming a page. That's when
{{free links}} (a page called
free links) are useful. The
{{text}} markup creates a link to a page called
Text. The
{{longer form}} markup creates a link to a page called
LongerForm and displays as
longer form.
Other examples include:
- hyphenated words, like
{{post-modern music}}
- plurals, like
{{wiki group}}s which produces wiki groups
- plurals of
{{WikiWord}}s which produces WikiWords
- ending truncation, such as
{{install|ation}} which displays as install
- alternate endings with the | markup, as in
{{install|ation}}ed which produces a link to a page called Installation and renders on screen as installed
- pages in other groups, like
Main/{{home page}} or {{Main/home page}} which produce home page.
A
free link must start with a letter (upper or lower case) and end with a letter (upper or lower case) or a number. A word can contain any combination of letters and hyphens, but not two adjacent hyphens. Words can be separated by one or more spaces, each word is then capitalized and the spaces are removed (or converted to underscores depending on site configuration).
The name of the page is always in Title Case. This means some pages may have multiple names. For example
FreeLinks and
{{free links}} are both references to
FreeLinks.
Free links can be used in combination with
[[{{free links}} alternate text]]. This produces
alternate text. The administrator can configure non-existent
free links to display as (alternate text)? for greater clarity.
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