wiki theme - external links

[Dean Sas]

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Matthew East wrote:
> 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?
> 

+1 for removing it completely.
I don't think that I understand the point of marking out external pages.
The only reason I can think of is as a very subtle trust message -
"warning this link goes to an external site, we are not responsible for
its content" that some sites have. In which case it's pretty
undiscoverable (and untrue when linking to h.u.c for example).

I do think it makes some pages ugly though. I don't feel strongly about
it either way but bikeshedding is fun :)

dsas
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