The InterMap is a system for defining links between WikiWikiWeb sites that was first developed by
UseMod:UseModWiki and
Meatball:MeatballWiki. InterMap links have the form HostPrefix:Page, where the host prefix is converted to a partial URL based on entries in the site's
intermap.txt and
localmap.txt files.
The default
intermap.txt distributed with
PmWiki includes the following InterMap entries:
PmWiki http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/PmWiki/
Wiki http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?
Meatball http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?
UseMod http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?
ISBN http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/
Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/
Cookbook http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/$1
Thus,
PmWiki:Variables becomes a link to the
PmWiki.Variables page on the official PmWiki web site,
Wiki:FrontPage is a link to the front page of the first WikiWikiWeb, and
Wikipedia:Stonehenge takes you to the Wikipedia article about the famous megaliths in England.
InterMap links can be used to link to non-wiki pages:
ISBN:020171499X is a link to Amazon.com's entry for
The Wiki Way by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham (an excellent book about
WikiWikiWebs in general).
In addition, PmWiki provides four special InterMap links called
ThisPage,
ThisGroup,
ThisWiki, and
ThisSite. These provide URI-shortcuts to the current (wiki) page, WikiGroup, wiki site, or site root URI respectively. Some examples of each:
ThisPage:?action=edit edits the current page
ThisGroup:GroupAttributes?action=attr link to set group passwords
ThisWiki:?action=crypt builds an encrypted password
ThisSite:/index.php link to /index.php on the current site
The actual set of InterMap links at any site is defined by the site administrator; for more details, see
PmWiki.CustomInterMaps.
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