Inter-Wiki Link Rules (or Links to other Sites)

This topic lists all aliases needed to map inter-wiki links to external wikis/sites.

Whenever you write ExternalSite:Page it will be linked automatically to the page on the external site. The link points to the URL corresponding to the ExternalSite alias below, concatenated to the Page you choose. Example: Type Wiki:RecentChanges to get Wiki:RecentChanges, the RecentChanges page at the original Wiki site.

How to define Inter-Wiki Links

Inter-wiki links are defined in the tables below.

• Each entry must be 3 or 4 columns of format:
  | External site alias | URL | Tooltip help text | Optional INTERLINKFORMAT override |.
• The Alias must start with an upper case letter and may contain alphanumeric characters.
• The URL and Tooltip Text may contain optional $page formatting tokens; the token gets expanded to the page name.
• The URL may contain foswiki macros. They are expanded when the URL is rendered.
• The Tooltip Text must not contain:
  • any HTML tags (including <nop> escape code),
  • any internal WikiWord links
  • any external links.
  • Hint: Escape 'WikiWords' and '$page'.
  • If the link format override is provided, it overrides the INTERWIKIPLUGIN_INTERLINKFORMAT for just that entry.

The optional INTERLINKFORMAT override can incorporate the following tokens which are expanded when the link is generated:

Token	Meaning
$site	Site alias
$page	Page (part after colon)
$url	Site URL (might contain $page)
$label	Equal to $site:$page
$tooltip	Tooltip message

See InterwikiPlugin for more details on specifiying the INTERLINKFORMAT.

Adding your own Inter-Wiki Links

Rather than adding your own inter-wiki links to this topic, the recommended approach is to create a topic in your Main Web, for example Main.InterWikis. You can then set the INTERWIKIPLUGIN_RULESTOPIC preference setting in Main.SitePreferences as follows:

   * Set INTERWIKIPLUGIN_RULESTOPIC = %SYSTEMWEB%.InterWikis, %USERSWEB%.InterWikis

Any inter-wikis you add to Main.InterWikis will then be available in the same way that the inter-wikis from here are. If you create a rule in Main.InterWikis which has the same alias as a rule in this topic, the rule from Main.InterWikis will take preference.

General Inter-Site Links

Alias:	URL:	Tooltip Text:
ISBN	http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?st=sr;ac=qr;isbn=	Book with ISBN $page
CPAN	https://metacpan.org/module/	CPAN perl repository
RFC	http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc$page.html	IETF RFC #$page
Dictionary	http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=	Look up '$page' at Dictionary.com
Acronym	http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=$page&String=exact	Look up '$page' on Acronym Finder site
Group	https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/	News group '$page' at Google.com
Google	https://google.com/search?q=	Search for '$page' on Google
News	https://news.google.com/news?q=	Search for '$page' on Google news

Inter-Wiki Links

Alias:	URL:	Tooltip Text:	Format override:
Advogato	http://www.advogato.org/article/$page.html	'$page' on Advogato community site (with peer review)
C2find	http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FindPage&value=	Search '$page' on the original 'WikiWikiWeb' site
DokuWiki	http://dokuwiki.org/	'$page' on Doku Wiki site
Foswiki	https://foswiki.org/	'$page' on foswiki.org
Foswikitask	https://foswiki.org/Tasks/	'$page' on the 'Foswiki' issue tracking site
FoxWiki	http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~	'$page' on Fox Wiki site
HammondWiki	http://www.dairiki.org/HammondWiki/	'$page' on 'HammondWiki' site
MeatBall	http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?	'$page' on 'MeatBall' site, a 'UseMod' Wiki variant
MoinMoin	https://moinmo.in/	'$page' on 'MoinMoin' Wiki site
PPR	http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?	'$page' on the original 'PortlandPatternRepository' site
Squeak	http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/	'$page' on Squeak Smalltalk Wiki
TWiki	http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/	'$page' on TWiki.org
TWikibug	http://develop.twiki.org/~twiki4/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/	'$page' on the TWiki issue tracking site
TWikirev	http://develop.twiki.org/trac/changeset/	revision $page of TWiki svn
UseMod	http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?	'$page' on 'UseMod' Wiki site
Wiki	http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?	'$page' on the original 'WikiWikiWeb' site
Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/	'$page' on 'Wikipedia'
ZWiki	http://zwiki.org/	'$page' on Zope's Wiki

Note: This topic configures the InterwikiPlugin.

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