On mer, 2002-02-27 at 15:40, kband(a)www.llamacom.com wrote:
From a user
perspective, I'd rather have more redirects than
links like [[Winter Olympic
Games|Winter Olympics]], since the
redirects are "invisible", while the pipe-linking is an ugliness
on the edit side (especially when they accumulate).
Another reason that redirecting is better is because it reduces
duplication of work--instead of everyone having to write
[[democracy|democratic]] every time they want to link "democratic",
a single redirect allows everyone to just write [[democratic]].
But I'd also like the REDIRECT functionality improved.
What kind of improvements?
The new software renders [[hand|hands]] and [[hand]]s
the same
as a single link (try it!), so it would be a nice optimization on the
edit side to use the latter. Again, I like the reduction of pipes
as much as possible.
Hey, never noticed that before, that's kinda nice! Objection withdrawn.
(Though I would note two things about this feature: first, it's
currently restricted to word extensions using the lowercase Latin
letters a-z. Second, some languages are not normally written with spaces
between words; a lowercase English word thrown in right after a linked
word could extend a link where it's not really warranted. This might be
something we want to be able to enable/disable on a per-wiki basis.)
Note to Magnus: would it kill you to put a few comments in your code? :)
I understand what that part's doing now that the effect has been
explained to me, but...
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)