Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> writes:
Currently:
[[work]] shows _work_ (underlined, see?) and links to [[work]].
[[work|working]] shows _working_, and links to [[work]]
[[work]]ing shows _work_ing and links to [[work]]
Your objection seems to be that #2 is more commonly what we want, but
more typing, and #3 is easier, but not often wanted.
Yes, thats exactly right.
Heres how Gaz's Perfect Wiki would work...
[[work]]ing shows _working_, links to [[work]]
[[work|working]] shows _working_, links to [[work]] (backwards compatible)
[[work|]]ing shows _work_ing, links to [[work]]]
^
|-- Any uncommon ASCII character will do. `|' seems reasonable since it
already has a special meaning, but one that makes no little or no
sense in this context
--
Gareth Owen
"Wikipedia does rock. By the count on the "brilliant prose" page, there
are 14 not-bad articles so far" -- Larry Sanger (12 Jan 2001)