resources /Web Tricks /Escape Wiki Words

Instructions

Problem

You want to include a word in your text that happens to look like a WikiWord, but you don't want it to automatically link to a page.

Solution

Use a tilde (~) in front of the word.

Example

If I wanted to say the name of my radio show, but did not want it to make a link to a page I would type the following in the source of the wiki page

My radio show is called ~GeekSpeak.

And that would create this text

My radio show is called GeekSpeak.

To put a tilde on a page simply use two of them

 My user web space is danm.ucsc.edu/~~lyle.

Which would show

My user web space is danm.ucsc.edu/~lyle.