https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52240

Marek Blahuš <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Marek Blahuš <[email protected]> ---
I suggest that links tails should remain, either whenever possible or at least
if the original link already had a tail.

In flective languages that heavily add affixes with no major modifications to
the word root, canonical forms often bloat the link syntax very much.

Even in English you can get [[transcontinental railroad]]s which would become
[[transcontinental railroad|transcontinental railroads]]. It is my impression
that editors who edit in wikitext prefer to avoid such constructions, unlike
most software.

I am currently working on software that converts wikitext to HTML, modifies it
to some extent (translates the text nodes and some attributes such as link
targets from Czech to Slovak) and then converts the result back to wikitext. If
canonical forms are going to be forced, I am afraid of loosing the possibility
to preserve link tails from the source article in the resulting translation
(Czech and Slovak are so close to each other that often translation consists
only of slight modification of affixes).

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