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A '''WikiWord''' is a [[CamelCase]] word that software automatically converts to a hyperlink.
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Some [[wiki]] engines use WikiWords as the most common way of linking to other pages.
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* WikiWikiWeb, used by Ward's Wiki
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* UseModWiki, used by Wikipedia decades ago and still used by Meatball Wiki
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* [[PmWiki]], used by [[The Other Tropes Wiki]]
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* MoinMoin, used by the official wikis of Python, Apache, Debian, and Ubuntu
   
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But nowadays, Wikipedia and All The Tropes use MediaWiki software.
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This is a term which refers to the [[CamelCase]] method of coding hyperlinks for PMWiki, the software on which [[The Other Tropes Wiki]] runs. If you try WikiWording on All The Tropes, you won't get a hyperlink, you'll just get a very long word with embedded capital letters.
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If you try WikiWording on All The Tropes, you won't get a hyperlink, you'll just get AVeryLongWordWithEmbeddedCapitalLetters.
   
 
Instead of WikiWords, use MediaWiki link coding, which works like this:
  
Instead of WikiWords, use MediaWiki link coding, which works like this:
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A WikiWord is a CamelCase word that software automatically converts to a hyperlink. Some wiki engines use WikiWords as the most common way of linking to other pages.

  • WikiWikiWeb, used by Ward's Wiki
  • UseModWiki, used by Wikipedia decades ago and still used by Meatball Wiki
  • PmWiki, used by The Other Tropes Wiki
  • MoinMoin, used by the official wikis of Python, Apache, Debian, and Ubuntu

But nowadays, Wikipedia and All The Tropes use MediaWiki software. If you try WikiWording on All The Tropes, you won't get a hyperlink, you'll just get AVeryLongWordWithEmbeddedCapitalLetters.

Instead of WikiWords, use MediaWiki link coding, which works like this: 

[[Name Of Trope]]

If you want to Pothole a bit of text, you do it like this: 

[[Name Of Trope|pothole text]]

Be aware that MediaWiki allows us to use punctuation in page names. So, naturally, in converting the tropebase over, we've inserted missing punctuation into trope and work names wherever we noticed it was needed. When you code the link for a trope with punctuation in the name, you just include the punctuation: 

[[What You Talkin' 'Bout, Willis?]]

Finally, MediaWiki allows you to put format coding directly in pothole text. No longer do you have to code three separate hyperlinks just to italicize a word in the middle of a potholed phrase -- you just markup the word inline: 

[[All The Tropes:About|All about the ''best'' new tropes site ''ever!'']]

will become

All about the best new tropes site ever!


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