1 Jan 2008 01:09
[Bug 4582] Provide preference-based autoformatting for unlinked dates
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582 --- Comment #93 from Omegatron <l8qjvx002@...> 2008-01-01 00:09:20 UTC --- (In reply to comment #91) > To me it makes a lot more sense that if an editor wants magic to happen, they > should ask for magic. And we should remove the auto-linking of ISBN numbers, because there are a few cases where they should not link to the Book sources page. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number#Check_digit_in_ISBN-10 for example. Oh, and we should also remove the auto-linking of URLs, because sometimes people want them to just be written out without actually becoming a link. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_normalization#Normalization_process for some examples. And we should remove the auto-linking of RFC numbers, since there are some cases where this conflicts and people don't want an actual link. See ... well, I can't find any examples. But I'm sure there are a few cases where people don't want them to be linked. We certainly don't want to confuse users by linking these things every time, when they should only be links 99.9% of the time. Users should have to explicitly spell out what they want with special tags, since we certainly don't want to make assumptions about what they want. Let's call it an "a" tag, for "Anchor", and then we'll have the link text inside the tags, with a URL which we'll label "href" for "Hypertext REFerence", ...(Continue reading)
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