On 4/12/02 5:09 PM, "lcrocker@nupedia.com" lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
Here's the proposal: On pages whose titles end with (context) in parentheses, [[ |link]] is interpreted as [[link (context)|link]]. On all pages, [[link (context)| ]] is interpreted that way as well. All other uses of [[|link]] or [[|link]] are simply interpreted as [[link]].
That will make fixing all the links in the Middle Earth, Poker, and other pages much easier, and I don't think it will add any temptation to over-categorize or cause other problems.
It is an open question whether these links are interpreted at save-time or render-time; the latter makes things easier I think, but the former has advantages too.
Let me try to figure out exactly how that would work...
So if we change September_11,_2001_Terrorist Attack/Casualties to Casualties_(September_11,_2001_Terrorist_Attack), then to link to say Missing_(September_11,_2001_Terrorist_Attack) on the Casualties page we write [[|Missing]], which is rendered as <a href="Missing_(September_11,_2001_Terrorist_Attack)">Missing</a>.
If we didn't move the page, we could also add this functionality so that on pages with a / the same thing happens, so that on September_11,_2001_Terrorist Attack/Casualties, a link to [[|Missing]] would go to September_11,_2001_Terrorist Attack/Missing.
Any of this would make life easier...