Wiki links?

[Martin Pool]

Caroline Ford wrote:
> Toby Smithe wrote:
>> Does Launchpad (Beta) support Wiki links, in Wiki [] style, to link
>> directly to the Ubuntu Wiki? /me doesn't want to mess up a bug comment
>> by trying it out. If not, I feel it would make a nice addition.
>>
>> Toby
>>
>>   
> Ubuntu - for reasons best known to itself uses the old MoinMoin wiki 
> engine which makes links using CamelCase rather than [[like this]]. I 
> guess that linking all camel case to a wiki page would break massively.

You can use ["some page"] though on that site the convention is camelcase.

> I also think there is an internal wiki in launchpad, as well as the 
> normal ubuntu wiki. Which wiki would you link to?

Consider also that projects other than Ubuntu use Launchpad.

There is no internal wiki yet though it has been requested.

Perhaps links like [http://distcc.org/ distcc] (mediawiki style) would
be good.  Or we could do InterWiki links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interwiki

-- 
Martin