Verdy_p (Philippe Verdy) is not a MediaWiki developer (or WMF employee), so there is no need to pay attention to his bizarre claim that [[Link]]s is deprecated (it isn't).
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > I really, really don't think that it was ever _declared_ as deprecated, in > any RFC or major architecture document . If it was, I'd like to read where. > > That said, in practice Visual Editor treats characters that come > immediately after links differently: > > 1. If the caret is at the end of link, but inside the highlighted link > area, then it becomes [[Link|Links]]. It's a bit longer syntax, but > functionally it is what the user usually wanted to happen, so it's not a > problem. It is, in a way, a little step towards the de-facto deprecation on > "[[Link]]s". There is a Phab task about it: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50463 . > > 2. If the caret is outside the highlighted link area, it becomes > [[Link]]<nowiki/>s. Technically it's kind of correct, but I went over > hundreds of edits where this happened in Hebrew and English Wikipedias, and > in _none_ of these edits it was what the user actually intended. It might > be different for other languages, and if there are such languages, I'd like > to know what they are. There's a whole family of Phab tasks around it, such > as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39939 , > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128060 , > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129778 and more. > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47126 is not totally unresolvable. It's > more like blocked by https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69223 . > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > 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? > > > > > > -- > > Bináris > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
