wiki theme - external links

[Craig Box]

> What do people think about the way that the wiki theme handles
> external links? At the moment next to the external link there is a
> little world icon, which I personally think gets in the way, and
> looks awkward when put alongside the normal links to other wiki
> pages.    
> 
> Shall we keep this feature or remove it?

When you don't have http:// in your links, I think it is important (from a
wikignome sense) to keep track of which links will leave the site, and which
will not.  However, "J Random User", looking at the site will just see
underlined links, which they expect to take them to "a different page" - so
I'm not sure that we would be breaking expected behaviour.

Wikipedia uses the much smaller
http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/external.png icon - perhaps it
could be adopted, or an Ubuntu artist could produce something similar?

Craig