diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 4b5ae1c..c2bcfa9 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ pub struct Config {
     #[builder(default=r"___".to_owned())]
     pub boundary_pattern: String,
     /// See [`self::cli::Config::wikilink_pattern`]
-    #[builder(default=r"#?\[\[(.*?)]]|#([A-Za-z0-9_]+)".to_owned())]
+    #[builder(default=r"\[\[([A-Za-z0-9_/\- ]+)]]|(?:(\s|^))#([A-Za-z0-9_]+)".to_owned())]
     pub wikilink_pattern: String,
     /// See [`self::cli::Config::filename_spacing_pattern`]
     #[builder(default=r"-|_|\s".to_owned())]
diff --git a/src/config/cli.rs b/src/config/cli.rs
index 578d5d7..0593a27 100644
--- a/src/config/cli.rs
+++ b/src/config/cli.rs
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ pub(super) struct Config {
     pub boundary_pattern: Option<String>,
 
     /// Regex pattern for wikilinks
+    /// Capture group 0 is skipped to enable lookbehind
     #[clap(short = 'w', long = "wikilink")]
     pub wikilink_pattern: Option<String>,
 
diff --git a/src/file/content/wikilink.rs b/src/file/content/wikilink.rs
index 628f3c1..14eb974 100644
--- a/src/file/content/wikilink.rs
+++ b/src/file/content/wikilink.rs
@@ -61,7 +61,13 @@ impl Wikilink {
             regex::Regex::new(wikilink_pattern).map_err(RegexError::CompileError)?;
         for mat in wikilink_pattern.captures_iter(contents) {
             let capture0 = mat.get(0).expect("0 always exists");
-            let Ok(alias) = mat.iter().skip(1).flatten().exactly_one() else {
+            let Ok(alias) = mat
+                .iter()
+                .skip(1)
+                .flatten()
+                .filter(|x| !x.as_str().trim().is_empty())
+                .exactly_one()
+            else {
                 return Err(RegexError::CaptureError {
                     pattern: wikilink_pattern.to_string(),
                     mat: mat.get(0).expect("0 always exists").as_str().to_string(),