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.
InterWiki prefixes can even be used to simply introduce links to new protocols, such as `tsvn:` used by TortoiseSvn.
<target_wiki>(:<identifier>)+
The link is composed by the targeted Wiki (or system) name, followed by a colon, eg `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.
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:
#!ini [[: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
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. ---- <code> 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/ ...
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See also: InterTrac, InterMapTxt