On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Barring major objections, I think this is *exactly right*. I think this might be a way to achieve the consensus I was talking about. It gives the "automatic linkback" capability that we like about subpages, but (respecting what LDC said yesterday, which made sense to me), it makes it more flexible and allows humans to determine the conceptual relationships.
But that's what hyperlinks generally do.
All the #PARENT command would *really* need to do would be to make the automatic linkback. There could be multiple parents. The parents don't need to know about their children, unless we do it.
If that's all the parent command were supposed to do, then why not forego the heavy lifting and just go with the hyperlinks we've already got?
Suppose we have pages [[Afghanistan]] and [[Afghanistan/History]]. Currently, [[Afghanistan/History]] has a link back to [[Afghanistan]] in it. But if we rename [[Afghanistan/History]] to [[History of Afghanistan]], the link back disappears.
I can't imagine that there wouldn't be a link to [[Afghanistan]] in an article about Afghanistan's history. :-)
Larry