Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Axel Boldt wrote:
>Did I miss the general consensus or vote that
allowed your patch in?
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.
You're correct, but I think that some discussion may still be useful.
For example, is it possible to disable [[X#Y]] links on Wikipedia
but enable them on Wikitionary, or would this be horrid to code?
A justification for allowing these links in Wiktionary
is that Wiktionary has highly standardised header names;
they're always "English", "French", "German",
"Polish", etc.
But headers in Wikipedia are unstable.
Not that this is the only possible solution,
but a few more days of discussion could help,
as long as people agree that we're working towards compromise.
In the end, I'd suggest erring on the side of too much functionality
and relying on policy to hold this back -- but that's imperfect too,
since it's hard for policy to stop people from doing what they can.
I'll advertise this on <wikipedia-L>.
I also have another technical question for Erik:
How does [[Special:Whatlinkshere]] interact with this?
-- Toby