[Wikipedia-l] Re: Modest proposals

[Jan Hidders]

From: "Uri Yanover" <uriyan_subscribe at yahoo.com>
>
> 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 gain is that the author has at edit time full control over where the
link points to. With runtime lookup a link might change because a certain
term was added to a certain namespace.

-- Jan Hidders