tarquin wrote:
Um, no, we should definitely NOT move [[Bill Clinton]] to [[Clinton, Bill]]
We are dealing with two very different things. The "wiki name" must be what people find easy to link to, and what looks good to Google. thus: "Bill Clinton".
"Clinton, Bill" is a "paper name". We will at one point want to produce paper output, so I think it's a good idea to start coding these in now.
Another idea I had along these lines was to create some synonyms for #REDIRECT:
#ALTERNATIVE <-- future paper edition will want this entry as a "see foo".
Ah, all right. I thought you had a relational database for FINDING things. Besides that, you already invented the "#REDIRECT:"-thing for this purpose. But now you're even inventing a third new thing?!
Why is Wiki so successful? Because the whole concept is so neat and simple. I really love it! Please let's keep it that way. I personally like to think more about reducing things (like banning html-input) than about extending things.
Let's first straighten out the Wiki-syntax, before complicating things even further.
Sorry if I'm bothering you guys. I am not against a paper-version, please don't get me wrong. I'm just warning you software-developers: make things simple instead of complicated.
Best wishes to you all!!!, Pieter Suurmond