Succinct link syntax
Daniel Earwicker
When talking about my cat Harold I want to link to his page. Currently this involves saying Harold. It would be neat to mimic other wikis by extending the syntax to support [[Harold]]. I believe github wiki does this.
Jan Macenka
Any news on that? Is there an auto-complete feature or support for [[ ]]-style internal links? Would love to compile Obsidian.md Knowledge from various Colleagues into a shared Wiki.js without having to re-compile all links (even if there is a plugin for this).
Tom Bielecki
I agree that [[Wikilink]] syntax is more succinct, easier for new users, and preferable for internal links. I've mentioned it in this other request: https://wiki.js.org/feedback/p/roam-like-editor-type
Nicolas Giard
Do you have a specific example of a wiki implementing this syntax? It's not part of the GitHub Flavored Markdown spec guide (https://github.github.com/gfm/#link-reference-definitions)
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Innosflew
Nicolas Giard: I think he reffers to Wikitext(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikitext) that is used by MediaWiki, and this is the link formatting he seems to talk about: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links
And his github wiki sentence probably reffers to this: https://help.github.com/articles/adding-links-to-wikis/
This post seems similar to this one: https://wikijs.canny.io/features/p/convert-asciidocwikitext-to-markdown
David Aslan French
Nicolas Giard: I would like to say that I agree with Daniel here. While the the \[visible\] \(link) syntax of typical markdown syntax is good for external wikis it's a huge drag for internal links.
Pablo Roman
Nicolas Giard: I think it would be bettet to keep the standard MarkDown syntax but add autocomplete. That would make it faster to write links without needing to change the parser and use nonstandard syntax. Sorry if it's already been done in 2.0.