Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Does anyone have a requirements document for the Wikipedia parser?
If not, will those programmers who have already begun work on such a parser, like Magnus and Frithjof, please send me any scraps of documentation you have?
Are you writing this document on Meta? I'll help :)
I guess the list of "stupid parser tricks" would start with bracket notation for links:
[http://www.edpoor.com] is a link to my outdated, static website
[http://www.edpoor.com/images/Ae-inAndDog.jpg girl with dog] is an annotated link
[[Iraq]] links to the Wikipedia article on Iraq [[Iraq|Rummyland]] links to Iraq but is shown as "Rummyland" (a Doonesbury reference, okay? ;-)
Actually, it's been suggested to use double brackets for both types of link.