Maybe creating a redirect on this page is a valid
solution ?
A solution to which part?
IMHO, the most elegant solution to his suggestion is to do these kinds of
things from the edit preview of the linking page _before submission_ rather
than trying to deduce second-hand from where an edit request came.
But then you still have the problem of the non-reversibility of
Wikitext/HTML conversion.
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).
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)!
On 3/7/07, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jim Wilson wrote:
> > You _can_ hook into MediaWiki at the "show edit page" event and do
some
> cool
> > things with it, but there's no good way to know the article from which
> the
> > user came - which would be a prerequisite for modifying said article's
> > links. Technically you could use the browser's provided
"referrer", but
> > this is unreliable (proxies) and easily spoofed or disabled.
> >
> > All of that aside - it's still a hard problem because of the
> > nondeterministic nature of wiki rendering and the complications that
> arise
> > from template transclusion. Even if you know the referrer (as in an
> Edit
> > Preview), the process of determining where in the wikitext a particular
> link
> > was generated is daunting.
>
Maybe creating a redirect on this page is a valid
solution ?
>
>
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