Some sites are regularly linked to by you or your users in a standard way. For example people often link subjects to entries in Wikipedia. Link Aliases allow users to use a Wiki short hand to link to these sites by giving the site alias followed by the requested subject. The alias and site are separated by a colon for example:

[Cheese|Wikipedia:Cheese]

This inserts the work cheese into your document with a link to the Wikipedia page on cheese like this Cheese. You will notice that the user does not need to use the full wikipedia url and that the link does not have the external link icon next to it.

The link aliases page /OpenForum/Aliases contains a list of sites that can be referenced by alias. Each site is on a new line, with the alias on the left and the url on the right separated by an = character like this.

Wikipedia=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/&request;

The subject is used to replace the &request; in the url. All aliases on the page are wrapped in a code example markup so that the wiki does not convert special wiki characters that may be in the url.

You can add your own aliases to this list as required.