On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 20:48, Nimish Gautam <ngautam(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey all,
I wanted to change the "cite" extension to have some extra functionality.
As citations have gotten more common, I've noticed an emerging use case
where people will copy and paste text from wikipedia to HTML-enabled
tools such as email clients or IM clients to share information.
Unfortunately, those citation links just link to anchors on the page and
don't provide anything useful when copied/pasted. Appending the full
page's URL to those links would take like 20 seconds, make them
functional, but would add extra markup to every page. Anyone have any
other good reasons why we shouldn't do this?
As Conrad pointed out using non-absolute URLs like this is by design
and not doing so would break other functionality.
What browser are you using and how are you copy-pasting the HTML from
the browser to your E-Mail/IM programs? If it's some feature where you
highlight a text on the page and the browser automatically fetches the
underlying HTML then not resolving anchor links on the page sounds
like a bug in that browser.
Are are you just viewing the source of the page and copy/pasting
snippets from there?