Mailing List Archive: [hardy@math.mit.edu: an oddity]

Interesting!

----- Forwarded message from Michael Hardy <hardy@math.mit.edu> -----

From: Michael Hardy <hardy@math.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:51:00 -0400 (EDT)
To: jwales@bomis.com
Subject: an oddity

OK, type "[[real]]ism" in a Wikipedia article and you
see the whole word "realism" made clickable, underlined,
and colored blue, and when you click on it you go to the
article titled "real". But type "real[[ism]]" and then,
although the whole word "realism" is colored blue and you
go to "ism" if you click on it, only "ism" is underlined!
(See if you can find "o[[ecumenical]]". I thought this
was a cute way to be efficient when an old-fashioned
spelling was used in the text.) -- Mike

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Michael Hardy
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> OK, type "[[real]]ism" in a Wikipedia article and you
> see the whole word "realism" made clickable, underlined,
> and colored blue, and when you click on it you go to the
> article titled "real". But type "real[[ism]]" and then,
> although the whole word "realism" is colored blue and you
> go to "ism" if you click on it, only "ism" is underlined!
> (See if you can find "o[[ecumenical]]". I thought this
> was a cute way to be efficient when an old-fashioned
> spelling was used in the text.) -- Mike

I don't know why he's saying that in the case of "real[[ism]]" the
entire word is blue, because it's not. At least not for me, neither on
Wikipedia nor on my test server:

<a href="/w/wiki.phtml?title=Real&action=edit" class='new'
title="Real">realism</a>
<p>
real<a href="/w/wiki.phtml?title=Ism&action=edit" class='new'
title="Ism">ism</a>