Wiki, Pearl, and Pattern markup

This site supports markup for wikilinks, pearls, and patterns.

For example,

   Click [[about]] to find out how this site emerged.

results in:

Click about to find out how this site emerged.

You can also provide your own text or ‘alias’, while referring to the same page – a so called “piped link”.

  Learn about the [[about|history of this site]].

becomes:

Learn about the history of this site.

Pearls and patterns

Text in curly brackets, like:

  {pearl}, {pearl language}, {pearl|parel}, and {city country fingers}

result in:

pearl, pearl language, parel, and city country fingers

and their corresponding link, allowing you to grow a pearl language.

Yearning pages

It is often practical to create “wikified” articles – that is, articles containing links to other pertinent subjects—without those other articles being yet in existence. Doing so creates yearning pages (rather than dead links) – they yearn for their creation. In a proper wiki, these links are red links. Some day this site may have these, too.

Wiki

  1. [[Hello world]] is a basic wikilink or internal link, displays Hello world, and links to its page.
  2. A piped link or ‘alias’ like [[Hello world|links to the same page, but with “alternate text”]] links to the same page, but with “alternate text”.

Pearl

  1. Use {pearl} to get pearl and its page link.
  2. Use {pearl language|pareltaal, met “alternatieve tekst”} to link to the same page but show pareltaal, met “alternatieve tekst”.