On 6/1/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Although there is another way to get there -- just type NOSTRADAMUS into the browser's address bar.
No good for accents, punctuation etc.
Personally, I'd like it if the interface did a little *more* of that "primitive case resolving", because creating all those redirects seems like a waste of time, a task which could better be handled in software. Some work has been done on this over at en.wiktionary, although in a somewhat ad-hoc way.
Yep, but there is a fundamental issue which is that in *some* cases case is significant, and in others it isn't.
Without looking, do you know whether "Bell Tower" is the same thing as "Bell tower"? (no, I don't either).
On the other hand, there are definitely cases where case should be more significant: I noticed today that someone had linked to [[foreland]], whereas [[Foreland]] came up. There is currently no way to force [[foreland]] to give a redlink. You either have to unlink it entirely, link it and hope that someone will realise that they're not at the right article, or go to [[Foreland]] and add a red dablink (a very weird concept). All bad solutions.
The best solution would: a) be consistent between typing in the search box, and following a [[link]] b) propose choices when the exact choice wasn't found, involving diacritic and case allowances c) allow some way to indicate in a link that you don't want name resolving to take place
I'm sure we've all gone "name fishing" before - you don't know what a thing is called, but hope to use the most canonical name by adding (film) or (food) or something afterwards. In such cases you do definitely want some name resolving. If a thing by that name existst and it' sthe wrong thing...you'd like to turn it off somehow (triple brackets? eep...)
Steve