You Wrote:

AFAIK, we all agree on now:

• No magic character at all in page titles (thus, no real subpages)
• Avoid "/" character in page titles
• Some topics need an easy method of grouping related subtopics
• The obvious soultion is to use "Y (X)" instead of "X/Y"
• Linking within related pages should be simplyfied

Two basic ways to do that:

1. Use the parser to display links differently
2. Change certain "shortcuts" on save

---- Now, for my own opinion:

Personally, I am much in favor of #2, as there will be no special

behaviour

added that complicates both the software and the understanding of

rules for

newcomers. "Old hands" will know how to use this, other won't bother

and

will, eventually, have to type the long title.

IF we could agree on #2, all we need to agree on otherwise is what

kind of

shortcut should be used. It should be

• Simple
• Fast to type
• Unusual enough to not be used in a real page title

So, how about

• [[Elves()]] on [[Middle Earth]] becomes [[Elves (Middle Earth)]]

I guess no real article would ever end on "()", except you try to

write

articles about functions with no parameter list ;)

Magnus

That's pretty close to my understanding as well except that (1) "/" _should_ be usable in article titles, like "OS/2", without any unexpected results; and (2) [[elves()]] on page "Middle Earth" should become [[Elves (Middle Earth)|elves]]; take careful note of display form and canonization. 0