[Wikipedia-l] Meta-question: wiki links in list/news posts

[Pedro M.V.]

What about a GNU plug-in to convert [[address]]es into html addresses ???.

This would be very cold ;)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Saintonge" <saintonge at telus.net>
To: <wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Meta-question: wiki links in list/news posts


> Richard Grevers wrote:
> 
> > I notice that many wikipedians refer to wikipedia pages in these 
> > discussion groups using wiki markup: e.g. [[this_article]]. That's 
> > very cute, but highly impractical in terms of actually linking to the 
> > article from a mail/news client. I usually have to resort to 
> > searching, particularly with meta pages that I'm not familiar with the 
> > url syntaxt of. Would it not be much better to paste the full url from 
> > the browser in list messages?
> >
> Not really.  Sometimes using the Wiki markup is simply shorthand for 
> saying "The article named "this article'".  It lets us know that 
> reference to an article is intended.  Pasting the full URL is a lot of 
> work when you are just trying to send off a quick note.  The reader who 
> wants to check the article in question (if it is not a purely 
> hypothetical one) can still copy and paste to the search box on any 
> Wikipedia page, and press "Go".
> 
> Eclecticology
> 
> 
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