Links

From the CouchSurfing Wiki, an informal workspace which anyone can edit.

(Redirected from Nice URLs)

Linking on the Wiki itself is easy, you just put square brackets [[ ]] around a word.

On the Wiki you can easily link to CouchSurfing using links like [[:cs:groups/brainstorm|the Brainstorm Group]], this will show up as the Brainstorm Group.

You can also add links to the Hitchwiki, using e.g. [[:hitch:Paris|Paris]], showing up as Paris.

These links are currently also working in some parts of the website, such as profile description and group description and messages.

Without the colon the link will show up in the left pane, not in the article text.

	CS Wiki	CS site	Hitchwiki	Wikitravel	Wikipedia
wikicode	[[Ambassadors]]	[[:cs:local.html\|New search]]	[[:hitch:Paris\|Paris]]	[[:wikitravel:Paris\|Paris]]	[[:wikipedia:Adhocracy\|Adhocracy]]
result	Ambassadors	New search	Paris	Paris	Adhocracy

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URLs

You can also access the CouchSurfing website from other places with nice URLs:

what?	`code`	looks like
People	`[[:cs:people/mattthew]]`	cs:people/mattthew
Groups	`[[:csgroup:brainstorm]]`	csgroup:brainstorm
Group threads	`[[:cs:groups/cockroach/92080\|Link to a post on the Cockroach group]]`	Link to a post on the Cockroach group
Meetings	`[[:cs:meetings/1060\|cool meeting]]`	cool meeting
Wiki	`[[:cs:wiki/links\|links on the wiki]]`	links on the wiki
Bugs	`[[:csbug:430\|bug 430]]`	bug 430

People

It has been possible to access user profiles with nice URLs for a long time. E.g. couchsurfing.com/chmac. It's probably better to use couchsurfing.com/people/chmac instead.

Groups

You can access groups with URLs like couchsurfing.com/groups/cockroach, but currently this is done by searching on keywords. So it might not always lead to the expected group.

You can also link to specific threads, e.g. couchsurfing.com/groups/cockroach/92080.

And finally, couchsurfing.com/groups does something useful as well.