S S ,

Ah, Sorry I did not see them. I just looked and clearly they are a result 
of documenting such "functional system tiddlers" in Tiddlywiki.com, even 
when they are not in use. If you look at empty.html you will see there are 
no "missing tiddlers". It is trivial when writing documentation to use the 
tilde ~ in front to stop them turning into links, but I question why one 
would, since clicking creates the tiddler and you could place notes in it 
for future reference.

I understand your concern they may be disconcerting to some new users who 
have not come to understand the value of automatically providing missing 
links, since in our own wikis this can lead us to learn of incomplete 
information. In some ways it is an inevitable product of the content in 
TiddlyWiki.com, but it it I take a copy of tiddlywiki.com offline for my 
own notes it is true any new missing links will be hard to identify in the 
large number already there. 

Rather than stop the *syslink* parsing could I suggest the best approach 
would be to create the missing tiddlers either empty (they will stop being 
missing) and/or with descriptive content, or even listing all the 
references to that tiddler as part of the documentation process, users on 
tiddlywiki.com could then find where that formally missing tiddler is 
discussed. The truth is many of these missing tiddlers, system or otherwise 
do in fact often point to shortfalls in the internal documentation and need 
attention anyway, so creating these should be part of the documentation 
effort. Where the link is clearly not required it should be edited to stop 
camel case or add the tilde, however this is unlikely to be valid with most 
system tiddlers named.

Another approach may be to provide the ability to list "missing tiddlers" 
that are exceptions and filter them out of the list of missing tiddlers. If 
a tiddler is missing and not in the list it will still appear.

Regards
Tony



On Saturday, 16 February 2019 00:18:51 UTC+11, S. S. wrote:
>
> Tony,
>
> My post a couple of days ago 
> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywikidev/B5UsFTGN5Mg/z81dzejBBgAJ> 
> lists many tiddlers having missing tiddlers caused by auto syslinks. For 
> missing tiddlers linked to by CamelCase, the full list can be seen in the 
> side-bar, More, Missing.
>
> Altogether there are a lot of them.
>
> Regards. 
>
> On Friday, February 15, 2019 at 1:31:16 PM UTC+7, TonyM wrote:
>>
>> S S ,
>>
>> Can you share some of the cases where "* visitors to tiddlywiki.com 
>> <http://tiddlywiki.com/> *[DO]* encounter meaningless links to 
>> non-existent tiddlers"*
>>
>> I am curious where these are being encountered and why.
>>
>> Regards
>> tony
>>
>>

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