Mailing List Archive: hack for disambiguation/topic articles

hack for disambiguation/topic articles

jakob.voss at s1999

Feb 19, 2003, 8:09 AM

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hi there!

Articles names of special topics often contain the topic in parenthesis for
disambiguation. The "pipe trick" automatically hides the stuff in parentheses
but if I have a lot of links between pages of the same topic I still have to
type the stuff in the parenthesis :-(

For instance in an article about "tree (graph theory)":

A '''tree''' is a [[graph (graph theory)|]]
that is [[connected (Graph theory)|]] and has
no simple [[cycle (Graph theory)|]]s.

I'd like a little hack that automatically adds the same topic that is used in
the article title. This could be done via empty parenthesis because there is no
article that has "()" in its title. In the example above:

A '''tree''' is a [[graph()|]]
that is [[connected()|]] and has
no simple [[cycle()|]]s.

For multiple articles of one topic this would be really helpfull and prevents
adding links to disambiguation pages. What do you think?

thanks a lot,
Jakob Voß

Re: hack for disambiguation/topic articles [ In reply to ]

erik_moeller at gmx

Feb 19, 2003, 2:14 PM

Post #2 of 3 (215 views)

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> I'd like a little hack that automatically adds the same topic that is used
> in the article title. This could be done via empty parenthesis because there
> is no article that has "()" in its title. In the example above:

Great idea! I suggest a simplified syntax, though, something like

[[cycle^]]

=>

[[cycle (graph theory)|cycle]]

(But do NOT turn it into that after saving, just render it when needed.)

Regards,

Erik

Re: hack for disambiguation/topic articles [ In reply to ]

taw at users

Feb 19, 2003, 2:25 PM

Post #3 of 3 (212 views)

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:14:00PM +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
> > I'd like a little hack that automatically adds the same topic that is used
> > in the article title. This could be done via empty parenthesis because there
> > is no article that has "()" in its title. In the example above:
>
> Great idea! I suggest a simplified syntax, though, something like
>
> [[cycle^]]
>
> =>
>
> [[cycle (graph theory)|cycle]]
>
> (But do NOT turn it into that after saving, just render it when needed.)

Seems like a lot of English-specific syntax is being introduced.
I'm just reminding you - do not overdo with it.
In lot of languages you usually have to use full [[foo|bar]] because of
flexion anyway, so this is just weird abuse of syntax for us.