Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima wrote: > Hi! > > Currently, when an editor create at some wikiproject an interwiki link > using [[Lang:Project:Page|Text]] the readers get a link to a "Page" of > "Project" (in the "Lang" language) and "Text" is shown in the link. > Besides this: > 1) The "title" attribute of the <a> element is equals to (something > not very intuitive for readers): [[Lang:Project:Page]]. > > 2) If "Text" is equals to "Page", and we want/need to show only the > "Page" text, it is needed to use [[Lang:Project:Page|Page]] (although > for local links [[A very long page name|A very long page name]] can be > abbreviated to [[A very long page name]]) > > 3) When the target page doesn't exists, the reader go to a page > showing the system message "MediaWiki:Noarticletext". > > > I have some considerations: > 1) What if the title attribute could be something more descriptive > like "Search at Project (in Lang) for pages related to 'Page'"? > The exact text could be translated for each language (or accordingly > to the target project), in such way that "Page", the real name of > "Project" (Wikipedia instead of "w", etc...) and the real name of > "Language" could be variables $1, $2, etc...; > > 2) For example, if in a page of a wikibook we need to use various > links to wiktionary and Wikinews, we would have to duplicate the total > size of each link (the number of characters to be typed) just to have > only the "Page" text shown. This is also bad for summaries, where we > can not use a long text. Perhaps another _short_ syntax could be used > to get "Page" instead of "Lang:Project:Page" without having to type > (the possible very long) "Page" two times (maybe the prefixed colon > [[:Lang:Project:Page]]?), in order to facilitate the integration > between the content of the projects;
Seems you don't know the pipe trick. Type [[Lang:Project:Page|]] and it will be automatically expanded to [[Lang:Project:Page|Page]] on save. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
