[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Disabling WikiWords for a page

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-01-12  05:50 PM +0100, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
>Maybe I'm opening a huge can of worms by suggesting that we could make
>arbitrary words become links?

If that is true, then you are just jumping into the can that I opened 
earlier when asking for "permanent" WikiWords.

My current workaround is to have an InterMap entry like this:
Wikipedia       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

with markup like this:  Wikipedia:/

so the link URL becomes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Patrick suggested that he might remove the requirement for a non-blank 
character after the colon in an InterMap reference, in which case the 
InterMap entry would become:
Wikipedia       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

with markup like this:  Wikipedia:

and it would be rendered on the page without the colon (just Wikipedia).

The problem is that new authors may not know about or even understand the 
reason for a trailing colon. It makes much more sense (to me and them) to 
have permanent WikiWords that always form links.

If they were stored in an InterMap-style table, the admin could add them as 
necessary and they would probably not proliferate too badly.

If the mappings appeared on a wiki page that users could edit, it would 
open a back door to spammers who could define words such as "and" to be 
permanent with links to their web stores. They would only need to insert a 
single entry to have virtually every page point at their site.

Should this (or has this) become a PITS entry????


Neil

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