[Wikipedia-l] Wikification function proposal

[Jimmy Wales]

Brion L. VIBBER wrote:
> Question: why do we have the separate forms [X] for external links and
> [[X]] for internal links? Unless we're going to add http:, ftp:, news:
> or mailto: namespaces, I don't see much possibility of conflict.
> 
> There may be good historical reasons I am not aware of.

"Good" I don't know, but the historical reasons are these:

In the original UseMod, CamelCase was internal, and [] was external.
We wanted spaces, so someone came up wtih the idea of [[]].


--Jimbo