History: WikiWords

Source of version: 3 (current)

Regardless of the below discussion, ((Robin Lee Powell|the webmaster)) has turned WikiWords off, so it doesn't much matter. ---- A ((WikiWords|WikiWord)) is the concatenation of two or more capitalised words, giving a single string that starts with a capital and has embedded single capitals. The obvious example is, of course, ((WikiWords|WikiWord)). ---- Having given above the naked, uncommented definition, discussion arose from subsequent thoughts on the question of how to generate links in Wikis. The discussion is below, the "executive summary" is: # Using WikiWords one avoids extra "noise" in the plain text. # By avoiding special characters we remove a potential barrier to technophobes. # BiCapitalisation looks silly. # The special characters are "essential markup." * We'll never agree. ---- Discussion follows. In the original Wiki the idea was that links would be created with no extra "noise" or fiddly bits. All you had to do was run the words together and the link would be created for you automagically. It still works in this Wiki, but as capitalisation is frowned on in lojban an alternative method has been implemented in which square brackets are used to create links. Opinions differ about this. Some say that BiCapitalisation looks silly, and that the square brackets used to create links are "essential markup." Others say that requiring extraneous symbols is a barrier to the non-technical who may feel intimidated by the use of these unfamiliar symbols. On the other hand, square brackets are hardly rocket science. So, is Wiki markup intended to exclude the hoi polloi or is Wiki non-markup to include the hoi polloi? Can we ever know? -- [ColinWright] ''Of course. As with any controversy in ((lojbanistan)), we all already know that the other side is wrong. The question is, can we ever agree?''