Brion Vibber wrote:
....
Wouldn't it be more sensible if [[kingdom (biology)]]
_automatically_ displayed as "kingdom", and
in the
much rarer cases we had to add a pipe to force the
long form?
...
Yes that would be much more sensible and unless there
is an objection I say go ahead and implement it (with
the proper announcements to Wikipedia News on meta of
course).
What about handling of namespaces and interwiki
links? Currently they're displayed be default,
and the pipe trick strips them just like
parentheticals.
I rarely ever want to actually display any namespace
(including interwiki ones) other than the various talk
namespaces. IMO all non-talk namespaces (wikipedia,
user, special and interwiki) should not displayed by
default.
Question:
What about all the piped links that are already in
Wikipedia? Will all instances of [[kingdom (biology) |
kingdom]] that are in articles right now be converted
to [[kingdom (biology)]] but displayed as
<u>kingdom</u>? Or would [[kingdom (biology)]]
automatically be converted to [[kingdom (biology) |
kingdom]] in the wiki code upon save? Or would we keep
all cases of [[kingdom (biology) | kingdom]] and
still support that syntax but also support [[kingdom
(biology)]] being displayed as just <u>kingdom</u>
without converting the wiki code to [[kingdom
(biology) | kingdom]] at save?
What would also be nice is the extend the pipe trick
for comma titles. IMO to follow the logic of your
proposed change [[Auburn, California]] would
automatically become [[Auburn, California | Auburn]]
but that may brake many links that already intend to
display the whole link name. So just to make linking
easier for at least those in the know perhaps
[[Auburn, California | ]] could be displayed as just
<u>Auburn</u> but in the wiki code it could still be
[[Auburn, California | ]] so that newbies can figure
out the trick. Yeah I know this would be inconsistent
with the proposed change in how the pipe trick works
with parentheticals but it is still tedious to type
[[Auburn, California | Auburn]] all the time.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma
I added many events to [[February 10]] and updated all
the year and many of the other pages linked from that
page.)
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