[Wikitext-l] Wikitext Madness of the Day: Internal Links
Andreas Jonsson andreas.jonsson at kreablo.se
Thu Aug 12 07:47:51 UTC 2010

2010-08-12 09:40, Daniel Kinzler skrev:
> Tomaž Šolc schrieb:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>>> (The actual regexp is using (.+?), but using an empty string as link
>>> text will still produce a link for some strange reason.)
>>>
>> Empty string is actually a special case: such links will use the name of
>> the target page minus the namespace prefix for the anchor.
>>
> but that's done on save, i guess before the actual parsing.
>
> Pipe trick syntax: [[User:Foo|]] will turn into [[User:Foo|Foo]] upon save.
>
>

OK, that explains it.

> Yay arcane special cases.
>
>

Yay, utomatically fixing the user input. That'll make things a lot
easier. :-)

/Andreas

But see also bug 5004 ("Keep the pipe trick ([[Piped link|]]) syntax in wikitext instead of converting it at pre-save transform"):
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5004

Helder