Rich Morin wrote:

I would like to be able to put arbitrary text into a hover box (aka, HTML title tag), to give the user a short precis of where a link will go. Looking at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link, I don't see any way to do this.

If I'm missing something, please let me know. If not, perhaps we should discuss the possible syntax for this.'

-r

You can stick a <span> tag inside the link text, like so:

[[XHTML|<span title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</span>]]

(It'd be nice if we could use <acronym> tags for this though, for full semantic effect.)

I'd suggest not using this technique very often, as users of MediaWiki software have come to expect the tooltip to tell them exactly where the link leads.