InterWikiDocumentation

As it says on "InterWiki", MeatballWiki has the canonical information on the InterWiki system. See MeatBall:InterWiki. Since MeatballWiki and UseModWiki are deeply intertwined, you can expect that to be accurate for UseModWiki.

Yes but it says nowhere how to use it (or at least I couldn't find it). That's why I had to dig up the code to understand the system and write the documentation below.

Note: UseModWiki 1.0 includes a basic "intermap" file with a few entries. You can copy this to the $DataDir and add your own entries. (You may need to change the permissions of the "intermap" file so that the wiki script can read it. On Linux or other Unix systems the command chmod ugo+r intermap should make the file readable.

Also, in 1.0 you can use links beginning with "Local:" or "LocalWiki:" to point to the current wiki. This local-link syntax is mostly useful for special actions like those on the System page. For example, Local:action=version will link to the current wiki's version page.

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To create the possibility of generating InterWiki links follow the following steps:

• Create a file named "intermap" (without quotes) in the data directory ($DataDir)
• Put in each line a pair sitename/url separated by spaces such as:

 UseMod https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?
 Google http://www.google.com/search?q=

• The keys have to begin with uppercase letters, otherwise it won't work.
• In your wikipages you can now create links by typing

 UseMod:UseModWiki
 [UseMod:UseModWiki Go to usemod!!]
 Google:UseModWiki

To generate, respectively

 UseMod:UseModWiki
 [Go to usemod!!]
 Google:UseModWiki

As you can see from the google example this is powerful enough to let you link to more than other wiki sites.

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