History: External Wikis
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External Wikis
External Wiki feature is used to make linking to other Tiki, websites topics easier. Using it you will be able to reuse with minimum work a connection (through a link) to your "network" of Tikis and regularly used websites.
Some examples:
The string on the left are the wikilink or the link shorthand. tw for tiki.org, dev for dev.tiki.org, wq for wikiquote, wd for wiktionary, lq for linuxquestions, wp for wikipedia.
tw https://tiki.org/$page dev https://dev.tiki.org/$page wq https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/$page wd https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/$page lq https://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/$page wp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$page
Simple linkeage
To make a link to any external wiki or site above on this site you can use the internal wiki double round brackets syntax with a prefix as "dev:" inside. For instance, to make a link to
you could use:
((dev:Download))
And it would produce this link:
Changing the string displayed
It is possible to use a different string of sentence that the page name to create a more descriptive link. Following the example above we want to improve the information the visitor will see. "Download" is quite short, "Download Tiki" is already more explicit.
you could use:
((dev:Download|Download Tiki))
And it would produce this link:
Insert an external wiki reference
You can do that through the link at "Admin > External wikis", that will lead you to tiki-admin_external_wikis.php:
List external wiki references
From the same tiki-admin_external_wikis.php you can see the list of external wiki references you already introduce them and edit or delete any of them. Below you can see, as a reference, the list of external wikis that we have defined in http://doc.tiki.org :
Tips and Tricks
For more information
- Please see flash movie of config process