[ewiki] Re: numbers in WikiLinks

Go for it.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Salzer [mailto:mario@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:38 PM
> To: ewiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ewiki] numbers in WikiLinks
> 
> Hey folks,
> 
> I've lately found some notices about numbers in WikiLinks. The Wiki
> linking scheme (BumbyText) is very familiar to programmers, and
> traditionally (in most other Wikis) numbers are considered to belong
> to the group of small letters, that is:
> [1234567890abcdefghijk...]
> 
> But IMO numbers in text look far more like big letters:
> [A1B2C3D4E5F6G7H8I9J0K...]
> 
> So I'd now favour to make numbers belong to the group of upper characters
> (EWIKI_CHARS_U). This for example would lead to the following being no
> WikiLinks any longer:
> 
> * W8Watchers
> * OoO0
> 
> But then following would be treated as WikiWords:
> 
> * Something2tell
> * 5apples4rent
> 
> Personally I'd see this as enhancement and more user-friendly than the old
> way (like other Wikis). Of course it is not that a dramatic change at all,
> because numbers are rather rare at the start of words, and so this
> wouldn't
> lead to that many accidential links.
> 
> Whatever, are there any votes against this change?
> 
> 
> mario
> 
> 
> 
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