Jim Wilson wrote:
Maybe an additional button that's just like the "[[ ]]" one, but prompts the user for a page to link to might work. Maybe with an ajaxy auto-complete search box so you can start typing the article you want to link to and it'll finish it for you (trying to think of the case where there are a huge number of potential "link to" articles without resorting to a secondary search page).
I'm with you here Jim I think this is most elegant solution, to main idea behind this my query which is to provide a way that editors can select the page title they are linking to rather than having to remember it and type it in (there is an extension that does this for categories when it lists all the categories at the bottom of the page and you can just select one or more from there.)
Who knows - I'm so accustomed to modifying wikitext by hand that I am probably not the best person to suggest functional enhancements to the gui tools. Guess you could chalk it up to "command line syndrome" :)
I mean, wikitext is so easy to use, No Wonder it's Number 1 (tm)!
Agree with you that MW is the best of breed, but as some one who is dyslexic I am frequently making spelling mistakes in my links and being able pick them from a list would be great.
Ta
John
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