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Summary
Wikilinks — the double-bracket Markdown extension used throughout this wiki to cross-reference other pages. Originally an Obsidian convention; now widely supported.
Body
A wikilink takes the form of double-bracketed slugs ([slug] wrapped in
double brackets). The wiki treats the slug minus .md as the target file
in Wiki/ or Wiki/sources/. Tools that support wikilinks:
- Obsidian — native support, with autocomplete and graph view.
- Quartz — static-site generator that resolves wikilinks at build time.
- Notion — wikilinks become page mentions if the target already exists.
Tools that do not support wikilinks natively (MediaWiki, GitHub Pages plain rendering) need a pre-processor that converts the double-bracket syntax to a relative Markdown link.
The health-check script (scripts_build/health_check.py) parses wikilinks and flags any that point to a non-existent file. See CONVENTIONS.md for the full convention.
Use it for
Cross-referencing concepts and sources; building the link graph; powering Obsidian’s graph view.