Thanks for replying Erik,
Please solve it elegantly: never complain to the user about the designer's own mistakes: just translate back while receiving a text submitted by a user. It is a 'design-uglyness' of the Wikipedia perhaps, but never the user's fault.
It is the software who started this *silent translating* in the first place, now don't blame that innocent user for adopting these (hardly visible!) habits! Let's instead be nice. Please don't frighten people with bold warning messages, they are really unnessesary. It would pollute GUI in my opinion.
Somewhere in the code, it is detected if somethin is between [[ ]]... Hopefully that code resides somewhere in the part where the Article-text from the user is received. Must not be too hard to put in a simple find-and-replace-command there, would it?
Kind regards Pieter
Erik Moeller wrote:
Sorry I'm going to bother you again: :-)
No problem -- you are probably correct that we should just convert the stuff, preferably before saving. OTOH, this has a probable negative side- effect: People might continue to type [[foo_bar_baz_boo_bad]] without us even noticing; that is, they might spend more effort than necessary.
Perhaps, if underscores in links are detected, a bold warning message should be prepended on the page: "You have used underscores in your links. This is not necessary. See .. for more information. The underscores have been filtered".
Regards,
Erik _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l