# I wonder if there is a wiki engine that uses markdown

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**Author:** ![jgm](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/jgm/32/1360_2.png) [@jgm](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/jgm)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/i-wonder-if-there-is-a-wiki-engine-that-uses-markdown/1281/6 "2015-07-24T16:41:11Z")

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> [@mofosyne](#):
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> Did you had to extend the syntax with non-standard extension to deal with the specific needs of a wiki engine?

Gitit handles wikilinks by overloading normal link syntax: links with empty URLs become wikilinks. So, `[My page]()` is a wikilink to the page called `My page`. The transformation can be done either on the AST or in the renderer. This approach saves having to invent an entirely new syntax for wikilinks.

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