Re: [Wikitech-l] stuff outside the [[bracket]]s

Removed in r36693 <http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=36693>. In the time I had been on the user end of MediaWiki I heard a lot of comments on [[Foo]]'s not linking the 's, which lead to some editors using [[Foo|Foo's]] which another fair number of editors complaining that it's unnecessary duplication of the text, just to append a simple 's to the word. Some wiki adopt the [[Foo|Foo's]] method, and others use [[Foo]]'s and silently grumble that the 's is not in the link but ignore it because it's cleaner in the code. Perhaps I should trudge into the backend and setup a cleaner system for auto-redirects. I was thinking of creating a regex-redirect and a deep-redirect extension. But perhaps I could make redirect patterns something a bit more part of core. My original purpose was for entertainment wiki redirecting things like Ep 0*([0-9]+?) to [[Episode $1]]. If a default "/(.+?)'s/" => "$1" pattern was used then [[Foo's]] could be linked, and it would link to [[Foo's]] which if did not exist, would be an automatic redirect to [[Foo]]. Then the 's stays out of the link when you don't want it, you can add the 's when you want it, and you don't need to create a redirect for every word with 's appended to it. Btw, if you were wondering about my reference to a Deep Redirect the point was; If you put #DEEPREDIRECT [[Bar]] on [[Foo]] then if you went to [[Foo/Foo]] and it did not exist it would be an automatic redirect to [[Bar/Foo]]. It was another extension suited for use over at Wikia ACG. ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com) --It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com) --Games-G.P.S. (http://ggps.org) -And Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) Charlotte Webb wrote: