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.
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