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-[[CamelCase]] is the term identifying the ability to link to another page on a wiki by removing the space between two capitalized letters.  A revolutionary way of thinking of technology - "What is the simplest thing we can do to make this work?" - to paraphrase [[WardCunningham]].  [[MediaWiki]] was developed from [[UseModWiki]] and because it was developed for and encyclopedia, which, obvioulsy has little use for [[CamelCase]] - so it was phased out.
+[[CamelCase]] is the term identifying the ability to link to another page on a wiki by removing the space between two capitalized letters.  It was a revolutionary way of thinking of technology—"What is the simplest thing we can do to make this work?"—to paraphrase [[WardCunningham]]. The [[MediaWiki]] wiki engine was developed from [[UseModWiki]] and because it was developed for an encyclopedia, where proper spelling and spacing are of high importance, the use of CamelCase to create internal links was phased out.
-WikiIndex does not use CamelCase, instead one have to enclose the wanted link in these double brackets: <tt><nowiki>[[</nowiki><nowiki>]]</nowiki></tt>.
+Likewise, WikiIndex (which runs on MediaWiki) does not use CamelCase to create links. Instead, one must enclose the wanted link in double brackets: <tt><nowiki>[[]]</nowiki></tt>.
+However, there is some sentiment (and practice) that CamelCase should be used on WikiIndex when creating categories which contain two or more words, such as [[:Category:LoginToEdit]].
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