[Wikipedia-l] Re: yet another modest proposal to address

[Uri Yanover]

What I meant is that the _author_ is the one who controls
the way links are transformed, not wiki software. That
way noone is going to come up saying "Wikipedia made
a link for me that I didn't intend to". With aliases,
the author could either use the aliased link or
make an escape of his own, and it's all under his control.

True, this requires a bit of thinking on behalf of the
author, but it also makes up for the defficiency in
ordering that was created by the elimination of
subpages.

Note finally, that if we don't do subpages, we go
all the way, link transformations included.

        Uri Yanover

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Hidders" <hidders at uia.ua.ac.be>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: yet another modest proposal to address


> From: "Uri Yanover" <uriyan_subscribe at yahoo.com>
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> > Unlike most others encyclopedias, Wikipedia is about
> > ease of editing too, and editing is made harder by the
> > abiguity in the convert-links-once solution. What I like
> > in the idea of aliases is the total control of the author
> > over what he links to. This won't be possible if Wiki
> > software is the thing that decides about the conversion.
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> I would say that it is exactly the other way around. Tim's proposal is not
> ambiguous and does not require any searching for terms in name spaces.
> Your's, however, does.
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> -- Jan Hidders
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