For external links, that is no concern, however. So you could define for each shortcut an alternative directive, that inserts the URL. Perhaps `\[[url shortcutname params]]` or `\[[@shortcutname params]]` (if the preprocessor supported the @), and this could be extended to local links in an obvious manner: `\[[url page]]` or `\[[@page]]`. Now, if you could just get rid off the parantheses for markdown, for the short inline links --[[tuomov]] (who'd really rather not have two separate linking mechanisms: ikiwiki's heavy syntax and markdown's lighter one).
+---
+
+I've added code to make the \[[foo 123]] syntax accept a _desc_
+parameter. I've named it like this to signal that it overrides the
+_desc_ provided at description time. `%s` is expanded here as well.
+[[todo/done]] -- Adeodato Simó