On 6/1/06, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
Although there is another way to get there -- just
type
NOSTRADAMUS into the browser's address bar.
No good for accents, punctuation etc.
Personally, I'd like it if the interface did a
little *more*
of that "primitive case resolving", because creating all those
redirects seems like a waste of time, a task which could better
be handled in software. Some work has been done on this over at
en.wiktionary, although in a somewhat ad-hoc way.
Yep, but there is a fundamental issue which is that in *some* cases
case is significant, and in others it isn't.
Without looking, do you know whether "Bell Tower" is the same thing as
"Bell tower"? (no, I don't either).
On the other hand, there are definitely cases where case should be
more significant: I noticed today that someone had linked to
[[foreland]], whereas [[Foreland]] came up. There is currently no way
to force [[foreland]] to give a redlink. You either have to unlink it
entirely, link it and hope that someone will realise that they're not
at the right article, or go to [[Foreland]] and add a red dablink (a
very weird concept). All bad solutions.
The best solution would:
a) be consistent between typing in the search box, and following a [[link]]
b) propose choices when the exact choice wasn't found, involving
diacritic and case allowances
c) allow some way to indicate in a link that you don't want name
resolving to take place
I'm sure we've all gone "name fishing" before - you don't know what
a
thing is called, but hope to use the most canonical name by adding
(film) or (food) or something afterwards. In such cases you do
definitely want some name resolving. If a thing by that name existst
and it' sthe wrong thing...you'd like to turn it off somehow (triple
brackets? eep...)
Steve