Link workbench

These are a set of pages that help us think through and test wiki link handling, both for Massive Wiki Builder, and Massive Wiki in general.

See:

• Massive Wiki Builder wikilinks specification
• Enhancement request: switchable transformation for page filename to slug · Issue #34
• other files in this directory

Concepts include:

• page name - the title of the page, used in wiki links
  • filename - when the wiki is stored in a filesystem, the name of the file that contains the page
• slug - the page identifier, usually a transformation of the page name / filename, used for a page's URL
• filename mangling - the process of turning an arbitrary filename into a URL-compliant slug. less frequently, might refer to transformations from page name to file name, respecting filesystem limitations on characters or length. more usually, a filesystem-based wiki will prevent people from creating page titles that cannot also be file names.

Other systems

• HedgeDoc will not be a wiki, and related matters - possible wiki link syntaxes, URL safety, Unicode issues.
• FedWiki:
  • https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki-client/blob/3e0a1dd499b5eb637eeb4a03970c9f0a4310e619/lib/page.coffee#L17-L18
  • Beyond Slugs (ward.asia.wiki.org)

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