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WikiRefs

🌤 2021-08-04

🌧 2021-11-23

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[[WikiRefs]]¹ are a crucial part of the world of digital gardening. They are the basic building block of the interlinking accomplished in many gardens, including this one. They are rendered with the jekyll-wikirefs plugin and you can check out those docs for more details.

But in short, This particular flavour of [[wikirefs]] includes three kinds of wiki constructs: wikiattrs, wikilinks, and wikiembeds.

WikiAttrs are formalized attributes of a file. They include a descriptive attrtype and a wikilink to another file. They look :like-this::[[wikilink]] (with a newline after) and are rendered in the attributes box (attrbox).

WikiLinks are traditional bidirectional links using the square bracket syntax and may appear anywhere in a file. There are :typed::[[wikilinks]] and regular untyped [[wikilinks]]. They are highlighted in a different color than external web links and may be previewed on hover.

WikiEmbeds embed the content of the linked file into the current one in-place. Markdown files may be embedded as well as images, audio, or video files. WikiEmbeds look like ![[this]].

All wikirefs are highlighted in a different color than external web links and may be previewed on hover. They are also the building blocks for the net web graph.

1. “wikiref” actually goes by many names: “wikilink”, “bidirectional link”, “wikitext linking”,”backlink”, “internal link”, “humble double bracket internal link”, to name only a few… ↩