Okay, fine, a hash table lookup, not a db lookup. Or perhaps a cache lookup. But the software needs to look for each link anyway, so checking another slightly larger hash table is not going to add any significant complexity to the renderer.
Okay, Laconics don't make good summaries. But are they, en masse, better or worse than an auto-generated summary from the first two lines of the article? This is a question of degrees here -- we can always rewrite fullwise the ungoodthink later. Er, I mean, revise the poorer entries. Looking at about 100 entries at random, I only saw three that I wanted to exclude outright, and another couple that needed revised. 5% isn't too bad. But this is definitely a YMMV sort of thing, because not many of the laconics are truly good either. The question is -- is a blank box a better starting point for writing a summary than the Laconic pages?
Note: The autogenerated summary will be a blank box in the editor until someone writes a real summary. And the laconic importer wouldn't take the "click here" lines, which cut down on the silliness substantially.
A index page will look something like this:
-->A quote, natch
Some description of the index
//// relatedpages
* ["An index"]
* ["Another Index"]
\\
[[labeledlist:love_tropes]
%% which expands to a bunch of index items
----
[- stadler and waldorf, etc.-]
So the only thing you lose is the ability to nest. And ordering. Maybe I'll think about a way to preserve that.
Automatic redirects? Huh. Maybe.
-- ∇×V
Okay, Laconics don't make good summaries. But are they, en masse, better or worse than an auto-generated summary from the first two lines of the article? This is a question of degrees here -- we can always rewrite fullwise the ungoodthink later. Er, I mean, revise the poorer entries. Looking at about 100 entries at random, I only saw three that I wanted to exclude outright, and another couple that needed revised. 5% isn't too bad. But this is definitely a YMMV sort of thing, because not many of the laconics are truly good either. The question is -- is a blank box a better starting point for writing a summary than the Laconic pages?
Note: The autogenerated summary will be a blank box in the editor until someone writes a real summary. And the laconic importer wouldn't take the "click here" lines, which cut down on the silliness substantially.
A index page will look something like this:
-->A quote, natch
Some description of the index
//// relatedpages
* ["An index"]
* ["Another Index"]
\\
[[labeledlist:love_tropes]
%% which expands to a bunch of index items
----
[- stadler and waldorf, etc.-]
So the only thing you lose is the ability to nest. And ordering. Maybe I'll think about a way to preserve that.
Automatic redirects? Huh. Maybe.
-- ∇×V