Last modified: 2006-02-17 21:10:10 UTC
The nature of inflecting languages (including all Slavic languages) means that currently, the majority of wikilinks on these Wikipedias are in the format "[[Wikipedia|Wikipedii]]" (example taken from the mainpage of the Polish Wikipedia). This is because in these languages, words change endings. However, unlike English, rather than adding a suffix (as in Duck -> Ducks), they usually change the end of the word (as in Encyclopedia -> Encyclopedii). This means that for the majority of wikilinks on wikis in these languages, the word must be typed twice. I think that it would be a major improvement if, rather than [[Wikipedia|Wikipedii]], people could just type [[Wikiped|ia|ii]]. The first field indicates the word root (in this case "Wikiped"), the second indicates the ending as used in the title of the article (in this case "ia"), and the third indicates the ending as it should appear in the text (in this case "ii"). Other examples include: [[Encycloped|ia|ii]] would display the same as [[Encyclopedia|Encyclopedii]]. [[medicín|a|e]] would display the same as [[medicína|medicíne]]. [[poľnohospodárstv|o|e]] would display the same as [[poľnohospodárstvo|poľnohospodárstve]]. [[zemlj|a|i]] would display the same as [[zemlja|zemlji]]. The benefit of this to Slavic-language Wikipedias would be great, similar to the benefit of the "[[donkey]]s -> [[donkey|donkeys]]" shortcut to the English Wikipedia.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3527 ***
I've reopened this bug since it proposes a slightly different solution (the double-pipe). Also, I don't think it nessecarily needs to be applied as a transformation (like ~~~~), but rather more like [[xx]]s or [[xx]]asdfpasiof.
Well, both the syntax and whether it should be a pre-save transform or not are both being actively debated, so it's probably better to keep the discussion in the one place. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3527 ***
