[WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

George Herbert george.herbert at gmail.com
Tue May 5 20:03:56 UTC 2009


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:45 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 5/5/2009 12:43:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ft2.wiki at gmail.com writes:
>
>
> > Skip the [[....]], not needed. All uppercase or numbers following a TP:
> > (or
> > equivalent one character symbol)... or even forbid all uppercase except
> as
> > used in links....
> >
> > FT2>>
>
> ---------------------
>
> I'll see you and raise you one.
> Any message following a ":"
> That way you can also drop the TP
>
> Will
>

Avoiding a normal ASCII formatting string would help...

One of the 7-bit GSM 3.38 special characters maybe?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Short_message_service

Psi ( Ψ <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/%CE%A8> ) even looks
W-like... Wikilink -> Psilink!

The 7-bit characters give us 160 chars to work with as well, more
betterness.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com


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