Wikilink support

[abhinav]

Support links in the format,

[[Other document]]

Where "Other document" maps to an "Other document.md" file.

[gedw99]

is this what you mean ? https://github.com/abhinav/goldmark-wikilink

[abhinav]

@gedw99 Yeah, I will probably use that extension.
The feature hasn't yet been added largely because the plain link version has been quite sufficient by itself.
The motivation for wikilinks support is to help combine documents from something like Obsidian.

[gedw99]

So it can’t pull data from Wikipedia ? I presumed it did.

ah it’s this: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Internal_links

[abhinav]

Yeah, it won't pull data from Wikpedia.
Wikilinks here just refers to the [[Foo]] form of referencing other files.
GitHub doesn't support them, but tools like Obsidian and Roam use them.

This issue is both to track, and to decide whether stitchmd should support something like:

- [[Foo]]
- [[Bar]]

And treat it as equivalent to:

- [Foo](Foo.md)
- [Bar](Bar.md)

[gedw99]

I see. If it’s just syntax sugaring then why bother as it just makings confusion.

[abhinav]

That's part of why it hasn't been implemented yet.
Implementing it would support Obsidian and similar note taking tools,
but I'm not convinced that that's something that should be in scope for this tool.

[gedw99]

Right :)

i spent a little bit of time playing with the code to get a feel for what it can offer.

but I got side tracked on another repo so will get time soon to come back to it.

I want to help on this project as I like what it’s goals