garden/wikilink.md

Wikilink

• A wikilink looks like this: [wikilink]. They are text surrounded by two square brackets.
  • Not to be confused with an [ECMAScript internal property], which is also surrounded by doubel brackets :)
• Wikilinks come, wait for it, from [wiki]s :) But they need not be limited only to things we usually think of as wikis.
  • You could use [wikilinks everywhere].
  • You can think of the Agora as a sort of distributed wiki, although users in this particular kind of wiki volunteer individual contributions instead of editing common pages (for now).
• Wikilinks are the heart of this [agora].
  • [wikilink] resolves to node/wikilink in an [agora].
    • [wikilink] -> https://anagora.org/node/wikilink
  • When needed slugify rules are applied.
    • [wikilinks everywhere] -> https://anagora.org/node/wikilinks-everywhere
  • Wikilinks are great because they allow for very easy linking: you just [link it as you go along], then the link either works (because someone wrote that node/article/resource already) or you can click through and backfill it. I call this procedure link-driven writing.
  • Whenever there is more than one [node] with a given wikilink in an Agora (typical use case: notes kept on a certain topic by different users), the Agora will surface all of them when resolving the wikilink in question. Example: [README].
• [pull] [wikilinks] [wikilinks everywhere]