[Wikipedia-l] Re: Modest proposals

[Uri Yanover]

> #base [[Fantasy Fiction]]
>
> [[/elves]]
>
> could be translated into this:
>
> See also: [[Fantasy Fiction]].
>
> [[elves (Fantasy Fiction)|elves]]

My apologies for not understanding you perfectly, but it still
would act as I've said if you don't give it a #base.

> The key differences between my proposal and his are:
>
> 1. I propose a solution that converts text during save, while Uri proposed
> adding to the wikipedia's source syntax.
> 2. I propose the disambiguating syntax -- [[title (context)]] -- while Uri
> proposed subpage syntax -- [[context/title]].

As for #2, I no longer support subpage syntax (as I've said, the
parentheses seem to me more aesthetic and helpful for an
encoclopedia).

As for #1, what I dislike in conversion during save is the fact
that _editing afterwards_ is still difficult (and I truly see no
gain in making this sort of pre-processing - it could be done
in runtime just as well). The renaming rules seem quite
complicated and implicit to me. And finally, I have doubts
if it is wise to build a link-resolving AI using regular
expressions if we can have the authors make the same
decisions explicitly.

Sincerely yours,
                    Uri Yanover