[Wikipedia-l] No subpages. Is that your final answer?

Fri Nov 9 18:41:27 UTC 2001

Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> writes:

> Currently:
> [[work]] shows _work_ (underlined, see?) and links to [[work]].
> 
> [[work|working]] shows _working_, and links to [[work]]
> 
> [[work]]ing shows _work_ing and links to [[work]]
> 
> Your objection seems to be that #2 is more commonly what we want, but
> more typing, and #3 is easier, but not often wanted.

Yes, thats exactly right.

Heres how Gaz's Perfect Wiki would work...

[[work]]ing shows _working_, links to [[work]]
[[work|working]] shows _working_, links to [[work]] (backwards compatible)
[[work|]]ing shows _work_ing, links to [[work]]]
      ^
      |-- Any uncommon ASCII character will do.  `|' seems reasonable since it
          already has a special meaning, but one that makes no little or no
          sense in this context 
-- 
Gareth Owen
"Wikipedia does rock.  By the count on the "brilliant prose" page, there
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