Last modified: 2013-04-15 13:02:18 UTC
Is it possible to allow some wikisyntax in the e-mail function. I'm thinking think of linking to pages with brackets [[]], which would show up in the message as a clickable link with full url of the page. I'm also thinking to allow signing e-mail-messages with three of four tildes ~~~~.
Well, we send plain text messages, so formatting would be lost. Clients might choose to render a free URL as clickable, but we don't have control over that. I for one would object to us sending out HTML email, as it makes things more complicated.
I wasn't thinking of HTML email messages. Only if i write [[Theo Ettema]] in an e-mailmessage in nl.wikipedia.org would show up as http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Ettema in the final message which would be sent off
Your reference to signatures hinted otherwise. Nevertheless, a transformation such as that described might be useful.
~~~~ could be sensibly translated into plaintext, although it would be superfluous (since the e-mail is already dated and specifies the sender).
People get pissed over those stupid little bits of HTML wonder they refer to as signatures; it's safer not to mess about with them. As you rightly state, it's superfluous.
That signature does not have to be anything else then name + datetime stamp, no need for hyperlinks or support for all those fancy sigs like on the wiki. Btw, I would vote for a ticket to disalow all those special sigs on the wiki Walter 10 nov 2006 11:10 (CET)
I was thinking that adding a sign in an e-mailmessage would result in the username and a url to the userpage under it. But transforming the wikilinks in e-mailmessages was indeed the core of my idea. So i drop the idea of the sign and i hope we concentrate on transforming wikilinks in urls in e-mailmessages ~~~~
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