On 05/06/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/5/06, Lord Voldemort lordbishopvoldemort@gmail.com wrote:
[[User:Can't sleep, clown will eat me|32Can't sleep, clown will eat me]]
I think that's 70 characters including spaces, punctuation and brackets. Just for reference purposes.
[[User:Can't sleep, clown will eat me|]]
That's considerably shorter.
And of course it's not normally necessary for users to choose ridiculous names.
This prompts a thought.
Most people know of the pipe trick with wikisyntax - typing [[Article name (modifier)]] displays as _Article name (modifier)_; typing it [[Article name (modifier)|]] - ie, with a single | character but no alternate text - is converted into [[Article name (modifier)|Article name]], displaying as _Article name_
How difficult would it be to adapt the wikisyntax such that [[|Namespace:Article name]] or [[Namespace:Article name||]] is converted into [[Namespace:Article name|Article name]]? I've noticed this a few times before, often when linking to Wikipedia policy pages or cats - not quite as useful a shortcut as the pipe trick, but it'd be handy to have.