2016-07-27 10:48 GMT+03:00 Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com>om>:
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