> That's it (as I understood it). The problem at
[[Middle Earth]]
> does seem to be thy typing inconvenience. The proposal should
> solve it nicely and simple, without subpages.
I think Tims proposal is an excellent one, but if
I'm honest it
looks very much like subpages with a slightly different (better)
notation.
But there are critical differences: most importantly, the article
namespace remains semantically flat; "Foo (Bar)" is still a top-
level article just like "Bar", and they have no pre-defined
relationship of any kind, and no runtime features that link them
in any way. People won't be tempted to use them to "categorize"
pages into hierachies.
Secondly, since the easy-to-type form is replaced by the full
form at save time, newbies won't even know about the shortcut and
won't be tempted to use it, the way they were tempted to use
subpages because they were /too/ easy. Only when one is
experienced enough to recognize that this feature would be
useful will you make the effort to discover it and use it.
Also, cutting and pasting from an article in one context into
another won't change the links, which is a good thing.
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