Have you ever wondered where the [[wikilink]] syntax you use in MediaWiki, Obsidian, Logseq, or Roam came from?
Clifford Adams created it for UseModWiki because CamelCase doesn’t work for Wikipedia.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-January/000007.html
#trivia
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