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Support wiki-style internal page links #2104
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The maintainer did respond and say it wouldn't be supported on the first request that you mentioned. But if I may add my 2 cents. There are already 2 ways to add links in Common Mark which is what Zola uses. I am all for options but too many options can lead to confusion, make the project more difficult to maintain and actually lead to a "less good" product in the end. I'm of the opinion that you can add a "preprocessor" before you call zola that would convert the "wiki links" to one of the options supported in common mark. I'm happy to give a try at helping with the preprocessor if that is an option you think would meet your needs. A general sketch of what I'm thinking is you have this program that will run through the content folder and look for a regex that matches the format and the use a capture group to get the info and the replace it in place by editing the file. (Maybe backing it up first?) |
Yeah as mentioned by @c-git we already added a way to add link that is not in CommonMark. Adding another way to do the same thing but less powerful/obvious is not going to happen. How would you link to the following files with Wiki links for example:
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I agree with you to avoid feature creep. That can easily add a huge burden on the dev team. Adding features that are not exactly new should be decided with care. That's why I started this issue: to have this discussion :)
I'm currently using this strategy. I have a Perl script that "translates" wiki links. But as my internal wiki grew, this script is now taking ~10s to parse all my ~2k pages. This is getting too annoying for me. As for pages with same title, but in different places, I have something like this in my Ultimate Index page:
In the wikilink format you can specify a path to the file to solve any ambiguity. |
I'd add a small db to check last modified time to avoid processing files that have already been processed and that should cut down the runtime substantially. |
It would be great for Zola to support wiki-style page links (a.k.a. wikilinks).
Wiki-links are in the format
[[Foo Bar]]
that translates to[Foo Bar](path/foo-bar)
and[[Foo Bar|Custom Title]]
that translates to[Custom Title](path/foo-bar)
. Those links are for internal pages only.This format is used in:
I know Zola has its own format for that (which is much more comfortable to use than what I saw on other systems), but Wiki links are gaining a lot of popularity. Supporting that would make the transition from other systems to Zola easier (my particular use case) and would add good tooling support to editing Zola-powered websites (in Vim/Neovim, hitting on a markdown/wiki link opens that document).
This was requested on the Forums but it was dismissed without discussion. There was another forum post that mentions the lack of support for wikilinks.
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