On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:25:41AM -0000, Mark Clements wrote:
I think it's very important to drop the use of the
word 'magic' in
describing these types of things. There is nothing magic about syntax-based
substitution. 'Magic' words in MediaWiki are "ISBN", "RFC",
unquoted URLs,
etc. These are plain-text elements that are automatically turned into
links, whether the user wanted that or not, and which do not require any
extra syntax.
And that is *why* they're magic: they are active copy with no special
syntax to *declare* them as active; every little bit o' warning you
give users that such things are even possible is no little bit too much.
Cheers,
-- jra
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