diff --git a/lib/renderer.js b/lib/renderer.js
index b3b90849..fbef6c20 100644
--- a/lib/renderer.js
+++ b/lib/renderer.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ var Marked = require("marked"),
     crypto = require("crypto"),
     Nsh    = require("node-syntaxhighlighter"),
     namer  = require("../lib/namer"),
+    models = require("../lib/models"),
     Configurable = require("./configurable");
 
 var Configuration = function() {
@@ -96,7 +97,8 @@ function evalTags(text) {
     }
     pageName = encodeURIComponent(namer.wikify(pageName));
 
-    tagmap[k] = "<a class=\"internal\" href=\"/wiki/" + pageName + "\">" + name + "</a>";
+    var wikiPage = new models.Page(pageName);
+    tagmap[k] = '<a class="internal' + (wikiPage.exists() ? '' : ' absent') + '" href="/wiki/' + pageName + '">' + name + '</a>';
   }
 
   for (k in tagmap) {