2016-07-27 10:48 GMT+03:00 Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com:
At https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47126 Verdy_p wrote:
"So I think that writing "[[Link]]s" (or "[[Target|Link]]s") instead of "[[Target|Links]]" (or "[[Link|Links]]") is just an old (deprecated) trick of MediaWiki used by (lazy) wiki redactors, we cannot recommand using it:"
I think this may be of a wider interest. Is [[Link]]s syntax really deprecated? I never read about this anywhere. From when? Is it subject to removal? Should all guides be updated and links corrected by bot?
What I know for sure is that: 1. Parsoid supports this syntax in both directions 2. I know quite a few users that have actively "corrected" this in the past
I'm not sure what "deprecated" would mean exactly for wikitext, I don't remember any feature being deprecated before (perhaps the "Image" namespace, but it was never removed). IMHO, it would be very hard from a social POV to eradicate this (very useful) shortcut, although I do agree that for the sake of future tools we could "correct" it automatically.
Strainu