On 8/17/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
IIRC, Steve, wasn't a large part of the problem that the parser would puke and die when presented with a *link* to such a page?
In part (it also screws up formatting any time the words are used), but that doesn't preclude a parser hack, does it? It may mean that whatever solution they're currently using would become screwy if such a parser extension gets installed, of course. Which is quite feasible . . . custom extensions have been installed on other WMF wikis before for various reasons, although usually only in batches (e.g. the Poem extension on Wikisource). And this wouldn't be a hard extension to write, if an extra parser pass on one of our smaller wikis (Wikipedia #42 by article count, 12,000-odd) isn't an issue.