- CulDeSac (a.k.a. a knot)
- A Wiki page, or an interlinked set of pages, with no outbound links.
Once you're inside a CulDeSac, there's no way out (except through standard navigation links like BackLinks, FindPage, and LikePages). Some WalledGardens are CulDeSacs; creating either is discouraged on Wiki, because neither serves as a GoodEntryPoint to Wiki.
If you run across a CulDeSac, consider
- adding an outbound link
- refactoring it into a related page
- deciding whether it's a DeletionCandidate
Some ShortWikiPages are CulDeSacs.
- UseModWiki has a discussion of algorithms used to find CulDeSacs: http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?KnotDetection.
- See WikiLinkStructureAnalysis
- Contrast with OrphanPage