+[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
WikiLinks provide easy linking between pages of the wiki. To create a
[[WikiLink]], just put the name of the page to link to in double brackets.
For example `\[[WikiLink]]`.
page, but the link will appear like this: [[foo_bar|SandBox]].
To link to an anchor inside a page, you can use something like
-`\[[WikiLink#foo]]`
+`\[[WikiLink#foo]]` .
-**Note that you cannot use spaces in WikiLinks**. Replace spaces with
-underscores. The presence of spaces is used to distinguish between a
-[[PreprocessorDirective]] and a WikiLink.
+## Directives and WikiLinks
+
+ikiwiki has two syntaxes for
+[[directives|directive]]. The older syntax
+used spaces to distinguish between directives and
+wikilinks; as a result, with that syntax in use, you cannot use spaces
+in WikiLinks, and must replace spaces with underscores. The newer
+syntax, enabled with the `prefix_directives` option in an ikiwiki
+setup file, prefixes directives with `!`, and thus does not prevent
+links with spaces. Future versions of ikiwiki will turn this option
+on by default.