--- Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
As those in the know, er, know, on Wikipedia there's a preprocessor syntax trick known as the 'pipe trick' which strips parentheticals, usually disambiguators, from the display of a link:
[[kingdom (biology)|]] turns into: [[kingdom (biology)|kingdom]]
so that it shows in the text as simply "kingdom", which is usually what you want.
It's a nice trick, but there are two things wrong with this system:
First, since the replacement is done at save time instead of at display time, newbies (who learn the finer points of wiki syntax primarily by looking at how existing articles are written) can't learn the trick without hearing about it or poring through the documentation.
You know what ? I feel a newbie, I didnot know about this trick :-)
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