On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 00:11, Jonathan Walther wrote:
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:17:58AM +0100, Jens Frank wrote:
meta and sep11 are similar to "languages". They are not namespaces, they have a db of their own and a domain of their own. Links like [[m:bla bla bla]] are treated different to language-links. They are rendered inline, similar to a [http://www.blabla.com/] link.
Can you explain that in more detail? What do you mean, "rendered inline"?
In the text instead of spirited up to a list at the top of the screen. eg the wikicode:
This [[m:Linking gone mad at meta-wikipedia|link to meta]] is in the text. But [[fr:Liens, liens sans fin|this French one]] isn't.
renders as:
Other languages: <French> Some Page from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This <link to meta> is in the text. But isn't.
unless you're in a talk page or on meta or sep11, in which case you get:
Talk:Some Page from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This <link to meta> is in the text. But <this French one> isn't.
From where I'm standing, if all the databases were folded into one wiki database, there would be no problem.
And I still haven't heard any suggestions for a different syntax for specifying an external wiki; it doesn't seem right to overload the namespace syntax to handle that function.
WikiName:ArticleTitle is the standard interwiki link syntax; the language codes are just abbreviated forms of the wiki name.
That local namespaces and interwikis both involve some text followed by a colon shouldn't bug us too badly... after all, URLs start the same way! (And we really _should_ allow URL links in the same double-bracket style as wikilinks; newbies try it naturally and get confused when it doesn't work.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)