Wiki Word

What is a WikiWord?

A WikiWord is formed by capitalising two or more words and running them together without spaces. Words written this way will automatically link to a page of the same name. If no page exists (yet) the WikiWord will have a question mark next to it which can be clicked to create the page.

These are all WikiWords:

• BurleyGreen (links to Burley Green)
• HowToUseTheWiki (links to How To Use Wiki)
• RecentChanges (links to Recent Changes)
• JohnKershaw (links to John Kershaw)

Each capital letter must be followed by at least one lower-case letter and the word mustn't contain numbers.

Choosing good page (link) names

None of the following will work as WikiWords:

• NASA (must be a lower case letter after each upper case letter)
• HereIAm (same problem)
• Help (only one word)
• Over60s (no numbers)

If you need to name a page like this, put square brackets round the linking text:

• [NASA] -> ??NASA
• [HereIAm] -> ??Here I Am
• [Help] -> ??Help
• [Over60s] -> ??Over 60 s

But it's easier for all if you can think of a way to re-word the page name as a real WikiWord. Only use letters, numbers and hyphens in bracketed links - not apostrophes, questions marks, spaces, slashes etc

Bad page (link) names

Don't use spaces - they will turn into '%20' in links. A slash will make the browser think it's a sub-directory:

 [??Coffee Rota 11/2001]

Instead use

 [CoffeeRota2001-11]

Using '??Subject Year-Month' (or Year-Month-Day) will ensure all the coffee rotas will be in chronological order when sorted alphabetically, in searches, includes etc.

When the WikiWord is displayed on the web page, either as the page title or a link, it will be split up into its component words: Wiki Word

If you want to write a WikiWord but don't want it to appear as a link (like all the occurences of 'WikiWord' on this page) you can put a ! before the word and it will appear as plain text.

See also: Help Pages