lsanger@nupedia.com writes:
And let me apologize for making a decision when there were still plenty of people wanting to talk.
But the decision has been made.
Fair enough Doesn't really bother me.
So when subpages disappear, whats going to happen to all the subpages with worthwhile content on?
And let me apologize for making a decision when there were
still plenty of
people wanting to talk.
But the decision has been made.
Actually, I didn't see a final decision until this page, but now that it is "official", I deactivated subpages on the PHP wikipedia altogether. Larry, time for a celebration! :)
So when subpages disappear, whats going to happen to all the subpages with worthwhile content on?
The ''pages'' and their contents will stay, of course. Just the linking is altered. What happens is: * One day, not so far away, a script will convert the UseMod wiki pages into MySQL. All [[/Bar]] links on a Foo page will automatically be converted into [[Foo/Bar]]. That was already done on the tarball you can see at http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/fpw/wiki.phtml (compare World War II, [[/Battle of Britain]] became [[World War II/Battle of Britain]]). * Plain-text links like /Bar will ''not'' work anymore. No subpages, no link on /. * [[/Bar]] will ''not'' work anymore. It leads to a page with an error message. You can try it out on the page above, it's all working. ---- I just saw the other post with [[algebra]]ic. I could easily make it a rule that ''upon pressing the Save button'' on the edit page, all "[[foobar]]xyz" occurrences would become "[[foobar|foobarxyz]]". That would include "]]ic", "]]s", "]]es", etc. Opinions?
Magnus
On Friday 09 November 2001 12:11, you wrote:
I just saw the other post with [[algebra]]ic. I could easily make it a rule that ''upon pressing the Save button'' on the edit page, all "[[foobar]]xyz" occurrences would become "[[foobar|foobarxyz]]". That would include "]]ic", "]]s", "]]es", etc. Opinions?
Against. I've found occasional good uses for "prefix[[snafu]]suffix" that I don't want to lose - for instance it is possible to say [[peace]]fully or [[peace|peacefully]] and they link to the same page. But an adjective or adverb as a link doesn't look right in an encyclopedia context.
IMHO there's far too much talk about letting the software do all the work lately ...
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