On mer, 2002-02-27 at 15:40, kband@www.llamacom.com wrote:
From a user perspective, I'd rather have more redirects than
links like [[Winter Olympic Games|Winter Olympics]], since the redirects are "invisible", while the pipe-linking is an ugliness on the edit side (especially when they accumulate).
Another reason that redirecting is better is because it reduces duplication of work--instead of everyone having to write [[democracy|democratic]] every time they want to link "democratic", a single redirect allows everyone to just write [[democratic]].
But I'd also like the REDIRECT functionality improved.
What kind of improvements?
The new software renders [[hand|hands]] and [[hand]]s the same as a single link (try it!), so it would be a nice optimization on the edit side to use the latter. Again, I like the reduction of pipes as much as possible.
Hey, never noticed that before, that's kinda nice! Objection withdrawn. (Though I would note two things about this feature: first, it's currently restricted to word extensions using the lowercase Latin letters a-z. Second, some languages are not normally written with spaces between words; a lowercase English word thrown in right after a linked word could extend a link where it's not really warranted. This might be something we want to be able to enable/disable on a per-wiki basis.)
Note to Magnus: would it kill you to put a few comments in your code? :) I understand what that part's doing now that the effect has been explained to me, but...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)