WhichWikiShouldWeUse

The other day, on a page I cannot find now, someone suggested that we might switch to a version of Wiki which supports arbitrary linking. The idea is that, particularly for an encyclopedia, having arbitrary links is better than the amusing but odd wiki capitalization conventions.

It strikes me that a very simple system would be to be able

to link like this: <<< Albania >>>.

Is there a wiki software that can support this? -- JimboWales

I just had another thought. Perhaps arbitrary linking using

<<< >>> should be limited to single words only. For example,

a list of UnitedStates might be written like this:

<<< Alabama >>>

<<< Alaska >>>

NorthDakota

<<< Wisconsin >>>

That is, if you use <<< >>>, the rule is that there has to be

only one word inside there.

The whole point here is to get away from weird names for single-word articles, things like NuPedia or AlaSka. Is

there a wiki that can do that? Or, should I just add the capability to this one? Or, is this whole idea really bad for some reason?

Hi Jimbo, I had made a suggestion a few days ago about perhaps switching to TWiki, as it is one of the more

polished (and well-documented) Wiki's. Twiki supports doing links as we've been doing here, as

well as forced links with double brackets. It's got gobs of other features... Check out

http://www.twiki.org. It's got pretty good docs, too. I highly recommend it.

-- Bryce