= Support for InterWiki links = ''(since [trac:milestone:0.10 0.10])'' == Definition == An InterWiki link can be used for referring to a Wiki page located in another Wiki system, and by extension, to any object located in any other Web application, provided a simple URL mapping can be done. At the extreme, InterWiki prefixes can even be used to simply introduce links to new protocols, such as `tsvn:` used by [trac:TortoiseSvn TortoiseSvn]. == Link Syntax == {{{ (:)+ }}} The link is composed by the targeted Wiki (or system) name, followed by a colon (e.g. `MeatBall:`), followed by a page specification in the target. Note that, as for InterTrac prefixes, '''InterWiki prefixes are case insensitive'''. The target Wiki URL is looked up in the `[interwiki]` section of TracIni or in the InterMapTxt wiki page, modeled after MeatBall:InterMapTxt. If a prefix is defined in both the `[interwiki]` section and InterMapTxt, the `[interwiki]` section takes precedence. In addition to traditional InterWiki links, where the target is simply ''appended'' to the URL, Trac supports parametric InterWiki URLs: identifiers `$1`, `$2`, ... in the URL will be replaced by corresponding arguments. The argument list is formed by splitting the page identifier using the ":" separator. === [interwiki] === Every option in the `[interwiki]` section in TracIni defines one InterWiki prefix. The option name defines the prefix. The option value defines the URL, optionally followed by a description separated from the URL by whitespace. Parametric URLs are supported as well. '''Example:''' {{{ [interwiki] MeatBall = http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl? PEP = http://www.python.org/peps/pep-$1.html Python Enhancement Proposal $1 tsvn = tsvn: Interact with TortoiseSvn }}} == Examples == If the following is an excerpt of the InterMapTxt page: {{{ = InterMapTxt = == This is the place for defining InterWiki prefixes == Currently active prefixes: [[InterWiki]] This page is modelled after the MeatBall:InterMapTxt page. In addition, an optional comment is allowed after the mapping. ---- {{{ PEP http://www.python.org/peps/pep-$1.html # Python Enhancement Proposal $1 Trac-ML http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.trac.general/$1 # Message $1 in Trac Mailing List tsvn tsvn: # Interact with TortoiseSvn ... MeatBall http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl? MetaWiki http://sunir.org/apps/meta.pl? MetaWikiPedia http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/ MoinMoin http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ ... }}} }}} Then, * `MoinMoin:InterWikiMap` should be rendered as MoinMoin:InterWikiMap and the ''title'' for that link would be "!InterWikiMap in !MoinMoin" * `Trac-ML:4346` should be rendered as Trac-ML:4346 and the ''title'' for that link would be "Message 4346 in Trac Mailing List" ---- See also: InterTrac, InterMapTxt