On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Kalankalan.001@gmail.com wrote:
We don’t allow attributes for wikilinks.
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That is, [[Special:Userlogout|log out|id=logoutlink|style=color:red|title=This will log you out]] will be a wikilink with style, title and id attributes. The current syntax is a subset of my proposal, so nothing should break.
Are there more convincing examples? Wikitext is there to serve up *content*, not to write the GUI with. It seems normal to me that a logout link would be written as an http:// style link - not a wikilink. Similarly, I'm having trouble picturing why a normal wikilink should be styled with colour or special attributes.
Any better examples of why this would be a good thing? The other example provided, coord strikes me as exactly the kind of weird special case (it generally displays in the title area!) that deserves to generate weird special xhtml...
Steve