On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 10:49 PM, DanTMan dan_the_man@telus.net wrote:
Well, if you've checked any number of active wiki, you're likely to run into the {{Title}} hack. Last I checked wiki like Wookiepedia and Uncyclopedia which are only second to the Wikimedia wiki in size have been using it for ages.
What is that, a JavaScript hack? Looks to be. This won't interfere with it.
However, to reduce the complaints and negative comments. Perhaps we should actually build that extension along-side a proper title rewrite as a Proof of Point, that it can be done without making it an absolute hack like it is.
I want to improve a certain class of functionality in certain ways. You want to improve it even more. That's fine, but it's not what I'm focusing on right now. I'm not as interested in the further improvements you propose, and I don't see why you would think they should be a requirement for implementing the smaller set of improvements I suggested.
On a similar note, there's another feature which is used in some cases: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Ascii_Translit That idea of allowing extensions to change the normalization process would void out the use of that extension, and allow for that kind of functionality without making it a hack, or needing to use redirects or double pages.
That would be an immediate application for a custom normalization function, yes, in the setup I envision. Not that I think anyone will do it anytime soon.