2016-07-27 10:48 GMT+03:00 Bináris <[email protected]>:
> At https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47126 Verdy_p wrote:
>
> "So I think that writing "[[Link]]s" (or "[[Target|Link]]s") instead of
> "[[Target|Links]]" (or "[[Link|Links]]") is just an old (deprecated) trick
> of MediaWiki used by (lazy) wiki redactors, we cannot recommand using it:"
>
> I think this may be of a wider interest. Is [[Link]]s syntax really
> deprecated? I never read about this anywhere.
> From when?
> Is it subject to removal?
> Should all guides be updated and links corrected by bot?


What I know for sure is that:
1. Parsoid supports this syntax in both directions
2. I know quite a few users that have actively "corrected" this in the past

 I'm not sure what "deprecated" would mean exactly for wikitext, I
don't remember any feature being deprecated before (perhaps the
"Image" namespace, but it was never removed). IMHO, it would be very
hard from a social POV to eradicate this (very useful) shortcut,
although I do agree that for the sake of future tools we could
"correct" it automatically.

Strainu

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