On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Aryeh GregorSimetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Kalankalan.001@gmail.com wrote:
The only way as I see it is making <a> an extension tag
Why? We'd be doing this in core, not in an extension. We could just adjust Parser.php appropriately.
Anyway, it’s up to devs (seemingly Tim in particular) to decide.
I am a dev. I've considered doing this, but doubt I'll find the time in the foreseeable future. I don't know whether it would be more complicated to allow <a> or extended wikilinks. It would be up to whoever implements it, should it be implemented.
If we want to maintain the pretense that ordinary articles should be reasonably accessible to edit, I'd suggest that using <a> is probably a better choice than extending the wikilink syntax. It feels more natural to keep the special cases somewhat segregated in that way from the ordinary code.
Just my two cents.
-Robert Rohde