[Pmwiki-users] Disabling WikiWords

[Thomas -Balu- Walter]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:21:14PM +0100, Siegfried Seibert wrote:
> > Hmm, this is an interesting idea but I'm not sure how easy it would be
> > to implement.  I'll have to think about it a while.  One would have to
> > be careful that "TemplateForm", "AndrewCarnegie", and "MyTopHat" don't
> > become "Template for m", " and drewCarnegie", and "My to pHat".  Yes,
> > I know we could say that the word has to be followed by an uppercase
> > letter, but I'm generally against creating lots of special rules
> > like this.
> > Besides, this is what free links are for:
> >   {{Tips for Editing}}
> >   {{Ham and Cheese}}
> >    ...
> 
> Yes, I know that. But WikiWords are much more user-friendly than free links
> (esspecially if you have a  german keyboard).
> 
> As far as I know, Wikipedia disabled WikiWords and uses just free links,
> because WikiWords look often very strange to site visitors not familiar with
> it. The suggested functionality helps an administrator that most of the
> WikiWords look quite normal when a page is displayed. And this can be
> realized with just very view rendering rules.

But it makes creating of links a lot more difficult for people that
don't know all these special rules - especially if it get's displayed in
a different way than it was typed.

     Balu