lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
Hmm. That might work too, and would be even simpler. Thanks for the suggestion--I solicit comments on that as well. I don't think it would be too bad, though, to have an "external/internal" separation between one-bracket and two-bracket links if your idea has some technical problem I don't see right now. That's pretty simple to understand an use.
The internal/external could be a point, but is [[de:<German phrase>]] really an internal or external link? And ISBN: is clearly an external link, so should that be in single brackets? I think the colon is what marks an external link. A separate namespace is as foreign as an external website (or set of websites, as in the ISBN: case).
In my own wiki, I have been experimenting with various namespace:word combinations as a shorthand for external links. This always fails when "word" needs to be a "phrase". You need that closing bracket, whether single or double.
PhpWiki (the software at http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/) uses single brackets for everything. I don't know why UseModWiki started with double brackets.