Richard Grevers wrote:
I notice that many wikipedians refer to wikipedia
pages in these
discussion groups using wiki markup: e.g. [[this_article]]. That's
very cute, but highly impractical in terms of actually linking to the
article from a mail/news client. I usually have to resort to
searching, particularly with meta pages that I'm not familiar with the
url syntaxt of. Would it not be much better to paste the full url from
the browser in list messages?
Not really. Sometimes using the Wiki markup is simply shorthand for
saying "The article named "this article'". It lets us know that
reference to an article is intended. Pasting the full URL is a lot of
work when you are just trying to send off a quick note. The reader who
wants to check the article in question (if it is not a purely
hypothetical one) can still copy and paste to the search box on any
Wikipedia page, and press "Go".
Eclecticology