One advantage that Erik does not mention, would be that keeping the pipe trick in the page text would make it possible for the savvy user who does not know it to find it out him- or herself. Under the current situation, only those 'in the know' (or who happen to find a help page where it is explained) can use it.

Andre Engels

On 12 Feb 2003, Erik Moeller wrote:

IMHO when I write

    [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines|]]

this should not be turned into

    [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines|Policies and guidelines]]

after saving. Instead, the link should stay the same, but the "Wikipedia:" part should still be omitted. Otherwise, on many pages that have lots of links with the namespace prefix omitted, you get lots and lots and lots of redundant information, and it becomes very hard to read. The same goes for

    [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (movie)|]]

which should not become

    [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (movie)|The

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]].

The (movie) part should instead be omitted "on the fly". This also makes it easier to change the pipe trick behavior should that ever be necessary. I believe this behavior would be more intuitive. In fact, I expected it to work this way and was surprised when I noticed that it doesn't.

A comparison would be the "slash trick" which I have developed for subpages.

    [[/foo/]]

becomes a link called "foo" to the subpage /foo of the current page, but it is *not* converted into [[/foo|foo]] for this purpose.

Thoughts?

Regards,

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