mediawiki-like link system with interwiki support

[Andre601]

Note

This is a repost from the mkdocs/mkdocs discussion.
I post it here as I'm blocked there and can't reply anymore, so I'm posting here.

Would like to setup a way to use MediaWiki-inspired page linking ([[page]] or [[page|display text]]).
I know that plugins already exist which provide this, such as EZLinks. However, one thing none seems to provide is support for linking to other, external sites like you can in MediaWiki with the interwiki feature.

As an example, assume I want to link to Wikipedia's MkDocs page. What I would like to do is using [[w:MkDocs|MkDocs]] to link to it, rather than [MkDocs](https://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkDocs).

What possible options are there?
I would love to have it configurable, so that I can set own prefixes/identifiers with a link-pattern to use.
I.e.:

extra:
  interwiki:
    w: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1'

Appreciate any help here.

[Andre601]

Original by @EddyLuten

FYI, mkdocs-alias-plugin v0.11.0 now supports the interwiki-style prefix syntax in case you're up for using a plugin to get this functionality.

Apreciate the reply and implementation.
However, I already implemented a version through a hook (link).
It probs isn't the best, so improvement ideas are welcome.

Also, looking at the alias plugin, it seems to require you to define aliases in the page header, which feels annoying.
Tho, I also only skimmed through the project page and may have missed that this is optional.

[mkusz]

I can add it to the https://mkdocs-publisher.github.io/ since I already have wikilink support etc.

[Andre601]

Unrelated, but a bit of feedback on the site:

This "it is a set of plugins that extends MkDocs with a set of plugins" seems a bit weird. No need to mention it twice that it is a set of plugins.