WikiText (Re: the wiki FrontPage discussion rolls on)

[Corey Burger]

On 5/2/05, Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> 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

SmushedTogetherWords is an orginal design features of wikis, and it is
called CamelCase, after the way the words bump. Basically the only
wiki I know that doesn't do it is Mediawiki, which powers Wikipedia.
It was changed for the very reason that Mary mentions, that of readers
and authors.

Corey