On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:57:26AM -0700, Axel Boldt wrote:
--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Toby-
I suggest
disabling intrawiki links of the form [[X#Y]] (but not
[[#Y]]), for the reasons that may be found in past discussions.
Yes, we can do that. I'd like to have a general consensus on the
matter, though. Heh, just kidding. But we should have a vote first.
Several people have requested this functionality.
Did I miss the general consensus or vote that allowed your patch in?
I am against inter-article anchor links because they make the rewriting
and refactoring of long articles much harder, yet that will soon be the
most important if not most common activity on Wikipedia.
I think that's not the right attitude. Techinal people should
implement whatever may be useful, even when there are downsides,
and consensus should be reached about policy of usage of these new features.
This consensus may be different for different Wikipedias, and almost for sure
it will be different for Wiktionary (where there are standard anchor targets
"X Language" and multipart articles). That way every wiki has what it wants.
Mixing policy issues with technical issues enforces views of majority on
everyone else, even if different projects have drastically different needs.