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The InterMap is a system for defining links between WikiWikiWeb sites that was first developed by UseMod:UseModWiki and Meatball:MeatballWiki. InterMap links have the form HostPrefix:Page, where the host prefix is converted to a partial URL based on entries in the site's intermap.txt and localmap.txt files.

The default intermap.txt distributed with PmWiki includes the following InterMap entries:

    PmWiki          http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/PmWiki/
    Wiki            http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?
    Meatball        http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?
    UseMod          http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?
    ISBN            http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/
    Wikipedia       http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/

Thus, PmWiki:Variables becomes a link to the PmWiki.Variables page on the official PmWiki web site, Wiki:FrontPage is a link to the front page of the first WikiWikiWeb, and Wikipedia:Stonehenge takes you to the Wikipedia article about the famous megaliths in England.

InterMap links can be used to link to non-wiki pages: ISBN:020171499X is a link to Amazon.com's entry for The Wiki Way by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham (an excellent book about WikiWikiWebs in general).

In addition, PmWiki provides three special InterMap links: ThisPage, ThisGroup, and ThisWiki provide URI-shortcuts to the current wiki page, group, or wiki site respectively. Thus, an edit link can be written as ThisPage:?action=edit, or a link to set group passwords can be written as ThisGroup:GroupAttributes?action=attr.

The actual set of InterMap links at any site is defined by the site administrator; for more details, see PmWiki.CustomInterMaps.

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