Wiki Word

A WikiWord is a CamelCase word that software automatically converts to a hyperlink. Some wiki engines use WikiWords as the most common way of linking to other pages.
 * WikiWikiWeb, used by Ward's Wiki
 * UseModWiki, used by Wikipedia decades ago and still used by Meatball Wiki
 * PmWiki, used by The Other Tropes Wiki
 * MoinMoin, used by the official wikis of Python, Apache, Debian, and Ubuntu

But nowadays, Wikipedia and All The Tropes use MediaWiki software. If you try WikiWording on All The Tropes, you won't get a hyperlink, you'll just get AVeryLongWordWithEmbeddedCapitalLetters.

Instead of WikiWords, use MediaWiki link coding, which works like this:

If you want to Pothole a bit of text, you do it like this:

Be aware that MediaWiki allows us to use punctuation in page names. So, naturally, in converting the tropebase over, we've inserted missing punctuation into trope and work names wherever we noticed it was needed. When you code the link for a trope with punctuation in the name, you just include the punctuation:

Finally, MediaWiki allows you to put format coding directly in pothole text. No longer do you have to code three separate hyperlinks just to italicize a word in the middle of a potholed phrase -- you just markup the word inline:

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