Project Agni Confidentiality
Project Agni Confidentiality
created using a specific syntax, the so-called "link pattern". Originally, most wikis [citation
needed]
used CamelCase to name pages and create links. These are produced by capitalizing words
in a phrase and removing the spaces between them (the word "CamelCase" is itself an
example). While CamelCase makes linking easy, it also leads to links in a form that deviates
from the standard spelling. To link to a page with a single-word title, one must abnormally
capitalize one of the letters in the word (e.g. "WiKi" instead of "Wiki"). CamelCase-based wikis
are instantly recognizable because they have many links with names such as "TableOfContents"
and "BeginnerQuestions." a wiki can render the visible anchor of such links "pretty" by reinserting
spaces, and possibly also reverting to lower case. This reprocessing of the link to improve the
readability of the anchor is, however, limited by the loss of capitalization information caused by
CamelCase reversal. For example, "RichardWagner" should be rendered as "Richard Wagner",
whereas "PopularMusic" should be rendered as "popular music". There is no easy way to
determine which capital letters should remain capitalized. As a result, many wikis now have "free
linking" using brackets, and some disable CamelCase by default.
Searching
Most wikis offer at least a title search, and sometimes a full-text search. The scalability of the
search depends on whether the wiki engine uses a database. Some wikis, such as PmWiki,
use flat files.[11] MediaWiki's first versions used flat files, but it was rewritten by Lee Daniel
Crocker in the early 2000s (decade) to be a database application. [citation needed] Indexed database
access is necessary for high speed searches on large wikis. Alternatively, external search
engines such as Google Search can sometimes be used on wikis with limited searching functions
to obtain more precise results.