On 8/9/02 7:38 PM, "lcrocker@nupedia.com" lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
What if "http:" was a namespace like "user:", you would use [[namespace:<data>]] for all sorts of links and that would be it. No more bare URLs and no [URL] with single brackets.
Hmm. That might work too, and would be even simpler. Thanks for the suggestion--I solicit comments on that as well. I don't think it would be too bad, though, to have an "external/internal" separation between one-bracket and two-bracket links if your idea has some technical problem I don't see right now. That's pretty simple to understand an use.
Just wondering: when did LDC become in charge of determining what Wikipedia's syntax should be?
WRT to the double/single bracket issue: We're suffering from a legacy problem, since the double-bracket syntax was originally uncommon (as opposed to CamelCase), it was okay that it was more tedious than single-bracket.
The best thing from a usability standpoint to do would be to switch from double brackets to single brackets.