# Wikilink Support in posts to Mediawiki Instance?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/wikilink-support-in-posts-to-mediawiki-instance/399075
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 23, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wikilink-support-in-posts-to-mediawiki-instance/399075 "2026-03-23T17:15:21Z")
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### Author: ![joshhabka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joshhabka/32/452328_2.png) [@joshhabka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshhabka)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wikilink-support-in-posts-to-mediawiki-instance/399075/1 "2026-03-23T17:15:21Z")

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Has anyone figured out how to enable Wikilink support in posts, so that instead of pasting the entire URL to a page on a Mediawiki instance, you could just use [[to start the Wikilink, then it would load pages dynamically from the respective Mediawiki instance(like [https://thpedia.org](https://thpedia.org)) to make it easy to link wiki pages in a post?

Here is an example of what the finished post would look like (without pasting full urls over words):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/b/d/2bdeb98b6b38ab17369a2d7875bf7d52473d1e9c.png)

Then it would like link to an external Mediawiki page:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/f/2/1f2d57405803a679c2609938eb786fe51f37ab05.jpeg)

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you

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### Author: ![darkpixlz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/darkpixlz/32/549896_2.png) [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2026, 5:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wikilink-support-in-posts-to-mediawiki-instance/399075/2 "2026-03-23T17:26:28Z")

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This is not natively a feature but I would imagine it isn’t too hard to make into a component. If you’re not willing to build it yourself or pay somebody to do it for you then there is nothing wrong with standard markdown format (`[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)`)

If you are a site admin and have certain things that always need to be a link you can visit Watched Words and add the word as a linked phrase so it will automatically become a link, but I’m not sure that’s what you want because it isn’t the Wikitext syntax.

 ![IMG_1831](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/5/9/d59ebc73c62254736d7245bb87473ea228bd5bb8.jpeg)

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### Author: ![joshhabka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joshhabka/32/452328_2.png) [@joshhabka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshhabka)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wikilink-support-in-posts-to-mediawiki-instance/399075/3 "2026-03-24T15:00:48Z")

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The watched words linking is actually kinda nice though since it automates a lot of linking. I will use this in conjunction with a custom theme component!

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### Author: ![denvergeeks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/denvergeeks/32/327671_2.png) [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wikilink-support-in-posts-to-mediawiki-instance/399075/4 "2026-03-25T04:21:15Z")

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I’m currently working toward these types of capabilities. You can poke around in my [Github Repository](https://github.com/denvergeeks) where you can find some Theme Components and Plugins I’m currently working on, i.e.

[https://github.com/denvergeeks/discourse-inline-tooltips](https://github.com/denvergeeks/discourse-inline-tooltips)

[https://github.com/denvergeeks/discourse-topic-view-modes](https://github.com/denvergeeks/discourse-topic-view-modes)

[https://github.com/denvergeeks/discourse-composer-topic-layouts](https://github.com/denvergeeks/discourse-composer-topic-layouts)

@Arkshine’s [GitHub - Arkshine/discourse-tooltipify-words · GitHub](https://github.com/Arkshine/discourse-tooltipify-words) might also be of interest.