[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:

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Hi

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(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