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From: Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] adding support for wikipedia links
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:46:40
Message-Id: 44F960A9.2030207@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-doc] adding support for wikipedia links by Mike Frysinger
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4 Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 > often when i'm writing docs i like to throw in links to wikipedia as it
6 > contains a wealth of information that i dont even want to try to duplicate
7 >
8 > rather than having to do like <uri
9 > link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo">FOO</uri> all the time, would it be
10 > possible to get a new tag implemented ? say something like:
11 > <wikipedia topic="Foo">FOO</uri>
12
13 yeah, not so much of a good idea, for the translation reasons specified, and
14 it'd be quite a lot of backend work to cover, what, maybe 15 existing links in
15 non-draft/ directories?
16
17 Though it's often comprehensive enough, it's not like wikipedia is the be-all
18 and end-all of free information.
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20 Not worth the time and trouble when it's easier to just use <uri>s the way
21 they're supposed to be used. Requiring a whole different format to write out
22 simple links in a doc is unintuitive and needlessly complex.
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