On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Simetrical wrote:
On 4/17/07, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Alternatively, could we use {{Media:Blah.mov}} to
do the inclusion?
I've always maintained that it makes much more sense for [[]] to be
inline links, always, and {{}} to be inclusions of content (which may
or may not be inline), always. So category, interwiki link, media,
and template inclusion should all use curly braces,
I don't think of category or interwiki as being inclusions of
content. Category isn't inline since the link goes to the bottom of
the page in the category list, but interwiki is inline, isn't it?
I could see an argument for [[Image:imagename]] going to the image
description and {{Image:imagename |params}} doing what
[[Image:imagename|params]] does now. But I don't get the distinction
for the others that you would move to {{ }}
I suspect I am misunderstanding what you mean by "inline" and
"inclusions of content". Template and Image seem like both inline
and inclusion of content to me. Even regular links alter the content
of what is in the braces. It also seems like your proposal is a much
larger backwards compatibility nightmare than the others.
Jim
inline links to
any of those should use square brackets rather than the bizarre
initial-colon thing. Then linking really is [[pagename]], not
[[pagename]] or maybe [[:pagename]]. (Some syntax would have to be
devised for transcluding category/image pages, but that's a very rare
use case.)
But that's just me. :P
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