"Matt M." matt_mcl@sympatico.ca writes:

I wonder if anyone else has thought of this, but while considering the pipe trick ([[foo (bar)|]] = [[foo (bar)|foo]]) it occurred to me that one of the places this would be most useful is in place names, a huge portion of which are in the form [[Boise, Idaho]].

Please, stay away from _all_ those tricks. The keyword is less surprise. If you will continue to create surprises to me, it's me who will stay away from the project. There are already enough issues.

BTW, it's much, much more important to improve the search feature and to fix bottlenecks.

And stop creating "compatibility" HTML. _Appending_ a "<p>" element is not proper HTML.

Matt M. wrote:

Hi,

I wonder if anyone else has thought of this, but while considering the pipe trick ([[foo (bar)|]] = [[foo (bar)|foo]]) it occurred to me that one of the places this would be most useful is in place names, a huge portion of which are in the form [[Boise, Idaho]]. If it could be set up so that the pipe trick could work with commas too ([[Boise, Idaho|]] = [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]), that would be very useful in a variety of situations. (It wouldn't conflict with other uses of commas, since you just wouldn't have any reason to use the pipe trick with them; or if, say, something had both commas and parentheses, you could set it to just pipe the parentheses. If an article had multiple commas, you could set it to hide everything after the first one.)

What do you think?

This is an interesting idea, particularly in the light of the debate which once raged over the formatting of place names. The one issue that I would dispute in your proposal is in the question of multiple commas. My instinct favours hiding everything after the last one, but that is a detail that could be explored after there is acceptance of the basic idea.

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