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The original wiki/WikiWiki convention for creating hyperlinks was the use of CamelCase to indicate a link. Look up Wiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikibooks has more about this subject: Wiki Science A wiki (IPA: <wee-kee> or <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allow users to easily add and edit content and is especially suited for collaborative writing. ...
Wikibooks has more about this subject: Wiki Science A wiki is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. ...
A hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource. ...
CamelCase, camel case or medial capitals is the practice of writing compound words or phrases where the words are joined without spaces, and each word is capitalized within the compound. ...
Due to problems inherent in such syntax, some Wikis (such as Wikipedia) eventually switched to what were called Free Links, where alternative syntax allowed any sequence of characters to be a link. Syntax, originating from the Greek words συν (syn, meaning co- or together) and τάξις (táxis, meaning sequence, order, arrangement), can in linguistics be described as the study of the rules, or patterned relations that govern the way the words in a sentence come together. ...
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A word became a link, with the link name equal to that word, and the link target being the page with that name, if it was in CamelCase form, with the additional requirement that the non-leading capitals had to be followed by a lower-case letter. Hence AlabamA and ABc would not be links (see WikiCase on WikiWiki and also CamelCase on WikiWiki). In the Wiki context, CamelCase was called WikiWord or WikiName.
The following do not strictly qualify as bicapitalization, but are CamelCase for the purposes of the original version of the WikiWiki software: Wikibooks has more about this subject: Wiki Science A wiki is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. ...
- AlabamA (CamelCased words need at least two components)
- aNaRcHy cAsE
StudlyCaps (or perhaps StUdLyCaPs, also known as StickyCaps) is a variation of CamelCase in which the individual letters in a word (or words) are capitalized and not capitalized, either at random or in some pattern. ...
Problems CamelCasedTerms are recognized by search engine spiders and indexers as single words, thus ranking pages incorrectly (a word in the URL generally rates a page as related to that word). Separating words (using hyphens between words in local paths or in DNS names; underscore is invalid for DNS names) addresses this. Removing case sensitivity from links also allows use of tools such as Apache's mod_speling, and easier guessing of URLs by people. A Uniform Resource Locator, URL (spelled out as an acronym, not pronounced as earl), or Web address, is a standardized address name layout for resources (such as documents or images) on the Internet (or elsewhere). ...
A hyphen ( -, or †) is a punctuation mark. ...
The Domain Name System or DNS is a system that stores information about host names and domain names in a kind of distributed database on networks, such as the Internet. ...
The underscore _ is the character with ASCII value 95. ...
Apache HTTP Server is a free software/open source HTTP web server for Unix-like systems (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and other platforms. ...
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