On 4/11/06, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske(a)web.de>
wrote:
We agreed on standards for articles in these
matters. We can do that for
the relatively low number of article titles this would affect.
I just suspect that if the possibilities are there, it will become
quite fraught (unless the policies are very clear). Someone will be
going "but company FOOBar" *always* writes the Bar in italics, and Foo
in bold. But I don't think that Wikipedia should respect that.
But you're right, we should leave that one to the community to manage.
I'd just use our usual WikiMarkup plus HTML
and have it limited through
the manual of style. Inventing a whole new markup (and the appropriate
new parser) for a few titles which people will have to learn in addition
to the existing one doesn't seem prudent, somehow :-)
True. :) But the parser could be as simple as replace(replace(s, "<",
"<"), "<sup>", "<sup>") etc.
Your list (punctuation, case, sub/sup) seems
good, although I'd allow
italics as well (I don't have an example, though). With only the manual
of style limiting markup, we can expand it where necessary.
I have an example. [[Prima facie]] (and other latin expressions),
[[ménage à trois]] etc. Would we have any call to allow a title to be
*partially* in italics? If not, perhaps you could make a variety of
flagtags like:
{{TITLEFIRSTLETTERCAPS}}
{{TITLEITALICS}}
...and then somehow deal with superscript/subscript :)
I have commited an initial attempt at {{DISPLAYTITLE|Anything goes}},
turned off by default in case of unforseen side effects
($wgAllowDisplayTitle=true turns it on). We can still restrict this, but
at least the infrastructure is there now.
PS if you're hacking on stuff like this, can I
request a flag to limit
the depth of a contents section? Sometimes having 3rd and 4th level
subheadings show up in the contents is just ugly and not helpful...