Wikis For Dummies®

Chapter 7. Linking, Categorizing, and Tagging Wiki Pages

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Exploring the wide world of wiki linking

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Creating external links to the outside world

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Adding files, images, and multimedia links

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Grouping pages with category and tag linking

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Even without links, wikis are an easy way to create and share content. With links, though, each page has depth because each link is an invitation to read more, explore, and jump to another topic. Because links are easier to create in wikis than in any other sort of Web technology, you have no excuse not to use them. The readers of your wiki will thank you for helping them find the information they need.

Of course, linking in wikis has its own strange history. As we describe in Chapter 2, wikis use camel case links. Camel case was created as a quick and easy linking scheme by Ward Cunningham, the inventor of wikis. As the wiki concept has grown, other needs arose, and camel case is no longer the only way to create a link. For example, free linking provides more flexibility and has become quite popular, especially because Wikipedia adopted it in lieu of using camel case. This chapter tells you about both types of linking, including the ways that wiki links go beyond the sort of links you see in plain old HTML Web pages.

Two other kinds of links used in wikis are adding images and linking to YouTube videos. Including ...