On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 10:49 PM, DanTMan <dan_the_man(a)telus.net> wrote:
Well, if you've checked any number of active wiki,
you're likely to run
into the {{Title}} hack. Last I checked wiki like Wookiepedia and
Uncyclopedia which are only second to the Wikimedia wiki in size have
been using it for ages.
What is that, a JavaScript hack? Looks to be. This won't interfere with it.
However, to reduce the complaints and negative
comments. Perhaps we
should actually build that extension along-side a proper title rewrite
as a Proof of Point, that it can be done without making it an absolute
hack like it is.
I want to improve a certain class of functionality in certain ways.
You want to improve it even more. That's fine, but it's not what I'm
focusing on right now. I'm not as interested in the further
improvements you propose, and I don't see why you would think they
should be a requirement for implementing the smaller set of
improvements I suggested.
On a similar note, there's another feature which
is used in some cases:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Ascii_Translit
That idea of allowing extensions to change the normalization process
would void out the use of that extension, and allow for that kind of
functionality without making it a hack, or needing to use redirects or
double pages.
That would be an immediate application for a custom normalization
function, yes, in the setup I envision. Not that I think anyone will
do it anytime soon.