On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:25:41AM -0000, Mark Clements wrote:
I think it's very important to drop the use of the word 'magic' in describing these types of things. There is nothing magic about syntax-based substitution. 'Magic' words in MediaWiki are "ISBN", "RFC", unquoted URLs, etc. These are plain-text elements that are automatically turned into links, whether the user wanted that or not, and which do not require any extra syntax.
And that is *why* they're magic: they are active copy with no special syntax to *declare* them as active; every little bit o' warning you give users that such things are even possible is no little bit too much.
Cheers, -- jra