Pipe trick should work differently - Wikitech-l

12 Feb 2003

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,

Erik