The Cunctator wrote:
Just wondering: when did LDC become in charge of determining what Wikipedia's syntax should be?
When he got the gumption to do most of the programming work. As has been pointed out before, Wikipedia is a do-ocracy.
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.
Single brackets are regularly used for things that _aren't_ links (phonetic transcriptions, programming snippets, etc); making them links would mean a horrible nightmare of <nowiki>s. If such a terrible thing did come to pass, do NOT forget to do automatic conversion on the database to add in the thousands of necessary <nowiki>s.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)