Martin Tournoij wrote: > Well, ID's are not easy to remember, and having two titles > for every page is even more difficult to remember.
I certainly don't remember tip numbers, but while doing heavy maintenance here it has been quite useful to have a short id to refer to tips when considering (say) a list of tips for merging. This applies when it's only me, and when communicating with other editors (it's also handy in an edit summary, like "merge in info from tip 123"). The need for that sort of thing will decline as the tips get into better shape. > Tell me, what is easier and more user-friendly: > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip1312 > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/256_colors_in_vim In an email or on an external web page, I agree that the second is preferable. But if the title is long and ugly (originally a lot were), the first is useful. For readers on the wiki, I would put [[VimTip1312|256 colors in vim]] so readers would not see "VimTip1312". Then the target tip can be renamed and only one link needs to be changed. Well over 600 tips have been renamed, so that has been an issue. I have a script that checks each VimTipNr page, so if one is not edited, or is edited incorrectly, the script will notice. Using the traditional wikitext of [[256 colors in vim]] increases the maintenance work for editors (although, again, that work should be manageable once good titles have been established). For editors, I have often put stuff like [[VimTip1312|Tip 1312 - 256 colors in vim]] in comments. It has been (slightly) useful when planning what to do with a few related tips to have an id. I can download all tips and edit them locally. So, translating all links like [[VimTip1312]] into [[VimTip1312|256 colors in Vim]] would be quite achievable, although not what I'd regard as a high priority now. John _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list Vim-l@wikia.com http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
