hi there!
Articles names of special topics often contain the topic in parenthesis for disambiguation. The "pipe trick" automatically hides the stuff in parentheses but if I have a lot of links between pages of the same topic I still have to type the stuff in the parenthesis :-(
For instance in an article about "tree (graph theory)":
A '''tree''' is a [[graph (graph theory)|]] that is [[connected (Graph theory)|]] and has no simple [[cycle (Graph theory)|]]s.
I'd like a little hack that automatically adds the same topic that is used in the article title. This could be done via empty parenthesis because there is no article that has "()" in its title. In the example above:
A '''tree''' is a [[graph()|]] that is [[connected()|]] and has no simple [[cycle()|]]s.
For multiple articles of one topic this would be really helpfull and prevents adding links to disambiguation pages. What do you think?
thanks a lot, Jakob Voß
I'd like a little hack that automatically adds the same topic that is used in the article title. This could be done via empty parenthesis because there is no article that has "()" in its title. In the example above:
Great idea! I suggest a simplified syntax, though, something like
[[cycle^]]
=>
[[cycle (graph theory)|cycle]]
(But do NOT turn it into that after saving, just render it when needed.)
Regards,
Erik
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:14:00PM +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
I'd like a little hack that automatically adds the same topic that is used in the article title. This could be done via empty parenthesis because there is no article that has "()" in its title. In the example above:
Great idea! I suggest a simplified syntax, though, something like
[[cycle^]]
=>
[[cycle (graph theory)|cycle]]
(But do NOT turn it into that after saving, just render it when needed.)
Seems like a lot of English-specific syntax is being introduced. I'm just reminding you - do not overdo with it. In lot of languages you usually have to use full [[foo|bar]] because of flexion anyway, so this is just weird abuse of syntax for us.
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