There are several way to insert external references into the text:
- direct URL insertion; if the URL ends in an image extension (".gif", ".jpg" or ".png"), the URL is converted to an image tag.
- bracketed URLs.
- InterWiki links.
- email addresses.
If you enter
URLs into normal text, there is the problem of detecting what belongs to the URL and what not. There are four ways to force the ending of an URL:
- put a space after the URL.
- use the SixSingleQuotes escaping.
- put the URL into double quotes.
- use the bracketed URL syntax.
The supported URL schemes are:
http,
https,
ftp,
nntp,
news,
mailto,
telnet, and
file. The administrator of your wiki can extend the supported schemes by using the
config.url_schemas variable (see
HelpOnConfiguration).
In addition to the standard schemes, there are
MoinMoin-specific ones:
wiki,
attachment,
inline, and
drawing. "
wiki" indicates an
InterWiki link, so
Frontpage and
Frontpage are equivalent; you will normally prefer the shorter form, the "
wiki" scheme becomes important when you use bracketed links, since there you always need a scheme. The other three schemes are related to file attachments and are explained on
HelpOnActions/AttachFile.
When the configuration option
bang_meta is set to true, you can surpress
WikiName linking by putting an exclamation mark (
bang) before the
WikiName, i.e.
WikiName. This is deactivated by default.