[pmwiki-users] Upgrade question - tracking down wiki words
Neil Herber
nospam at eton.ca
Mon Jun 13 10:45:27 CDT 2005
At 2005-06-12 02:09 PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>One temporary solution might be to continue to support WikiWords, but have
>them generate a link to a page only if the page exists (otherwise the
>wikiword is displayed as normal text w/o a "create page link" decoration).
>I'm sure I could quickly come up with some mechanism to do this. This
>would mean that WikiWords become useful for linking to existing pages
>but don't clutter up the display if/when there's no existing target.
I sort of like this idea - but I think it might be too confusing for
authors if wiki words work sometimes and not others. They may get used to
typing things like HomePage instead of [[Home Page]].
I have a hare-brained suggestion of my own:
Have an intermediate state between wiki words and no wiki words (partial
wiki words?) that emits some distinctive markup for bare wiki words like this:
TheUnlinkedPage (notlinked!!)
This would be similar to the markup for unapproved URL links. Wiki admins
or authors could then just search for "notlinked!!".
Neil
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