On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:45 PM, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Thomas Gries <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2. Started to make extensive use of {{shortcut | <shortcutname> }} on >> Extension pages, >> and would like to encourage you to help adding such markers for >> important extensions or extensions you maintain, too. >> >> Will find a way to make that case-insensitive. Currently, shortcutnames >> are uppercase. Personally, I would prefer to have the shortcuts working >> case-insensitively, and also printed the shortcutnames in lower-case, >> but this is more a style and guideline question. > > Eww no, shortcuts should be avoided where possible, they are basically > pointless for us and they don't serve any decent purpose apart from > removing "extension:" from the url which is not something we should be > doing (depending on what shortcuts people make), we should be > encouraging people to use the proper urls because they are more likely > to be permanent. > > Also they are confusing to some newer people where the url != the page > title which is out standard convention with mediawiki. >
+1. A very very strong +1. Really, I don't see the need for all these Wikipedia-esque templates. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
