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by physicsyogi 2337 days ago
It looks like the main differences are the bidirectional links and the automated creation of those links.
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Bi-directional links are visible if you go to the What Links Here [0] section of a page. Notably though it doesn't include "unlinked references" (as Roam refers to it), which is quite useful.

[0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:What_links_here

You can still fish that up if you need to either from the UI's search or the search API, but in poking Roam that felt like a potential anti-feature around ambiguous terms, for instance with no clear way to flag a particular reference as not relevant to a term.