WikiText (Re: the wiki FrontPage discussion rolls on)

[Ari Torhamo]

ti, 2005-05-03 kello 14:22 +1000, Mary Gardiner kirjoitti:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> > Sorry for commenting just a small detail for now, but is there a
> > reason to write the section names (or how should they be called)
> > without spaces between the words. Names like TheUbuntuCommunity,
> > LowEndSystemSupport, etc. differ (unnecessarily?) from the way people
> > normally write. Why not make people feel home every way we can :-)
> 
> The reason is that the wiki software will automatically turn
> SmushedTogetherWords into a link to a SmushedTogetherWords page (or at
> least this wiki software does, some doesn't). It's possible to link to
> SmushedTogetherWords using the text "Smushed Together Words" or to
> create a "Smushed Together Words" page, but it's not something the
> software makes as easy as SmushedTogetherWords.
> 
> I'm not sure what inspired the original SmushedTogetherWords design
> decision (which pre-dates our install by years), but I suspect it was
> intended that all wiki readers would also be wiki authors, which isn't
> the case here.
> 
> -Mary


OK. Thanks for the good explanation :-)

Ari