# Implict MediaWiki/Gollum-style \[\[page links\]\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Extensions\ **Created:** [October 20, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/implict-mediawiki-gollum-style-page-links/830 "2014-10-20T12:15:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![mofosyne](https://talk.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/mofosyne/32/1438_2.png) [@mofosyne](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/mofosyne)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/implict-mediawiki-gollum-style-page-links/830/2 "2014-10-20T13:04:59Z")
Is there any relation to:? > [@Compact URIs (CURIEs)](http://talk.commonmark.org/t/compact-uris-curies/553): > > Imagine for a moment being able to type a shortcut notation like [\](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read "Wikipedia: Too long; didn't read") to generate an external hyperlink that helped readers understand your concise intent. Better yet, try mousing over the link above. Compact URIs About 5 years back, the textual datatype [W3C Compact URI (a.k.a CURIE)](http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-curie-20090116/) was standardized. CURIEs are similar to QNames, but resolved some of their shortcomings. CURIEs are the sort of building-block datatype that would have been a great foundation build XML, YAML, etc.; but… Basically, you “declare root url” on top of page, and then use CURIEs to append the root url to your url. If you could combine CURIEs with your proposal, then that might be useful. Perhaps the root url can be declared via document metadata or sitewide options. --- _[View the full topic](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/implict-mediawiki-gollum-style-page-links/830)._