[WikiEN-l] Re: I demand a daily spot for great writing

Mon Oct 10 03:14:22 UTC 2005

There's no way to discern a 'good' (adding to the content) wikilink and a
'bad' (not adding to the content, such as [[sound]] or [[the]]...yes I
suppose the latter is an extreme example) wikilink, and I believe that's
what Tony Sidaway is talking about

On 10/9/05, Michael Turley <michael.turley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/9/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/9/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Tony Sidaway wrote:
> > > I tend to use wikilinks
> > > to help me skim sentences for the important subjects they refer to.
> > >
> >
> > I think the problem with the Language article is that it's far too
> heavily
> > wikified. In some sentences nearly all words are needlessly peppered
> with
> > blue link. As if someone would find himself unable to understand what
> was
> > meant by "sounds" or "gestures" in the opener, and a link to the
> articles
> > for those words would help.
>
> Perhaps you should choose (or design) a skin that doesn't highlight
> wikilinks unless you glide your cursor over them.
>
> In general, I would agree that our blue wikilinks are a little too
> contrasting with the text body, making them a distraction, and would
> prefer something more subtle as the default.
>
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