On 4/15/05, Hamish lists@subvs.co.uk wrote:

Hello all I am about to put up a wiki for internal company use, I will be using mediawiki, but i have just seen that docuwiki has support for windows shares, which may be quite useful. Is there a way to implement/use this in mediawiki?

It looks like you're referring to this: http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:syntax#windows_shares

All this is is a slightly quicker way of creating an "external" link beginning file:/// You can allow MediaWiki to treat these as valid external links, but as pointed out in many places, many (most?) browsers will refuse to follow such links from pages loaded over http anyway. See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_it_somehow_possible_to_use_a_FILE_URI-...