Author: charlottethewebb
Description:
I've been noticing a lot of edits like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hard_Candy&diff=67297741&oldid=62696916
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pok%C3%A9mon&diff=105187516&oldid=104903353
Where the effect of piping the link is only to make it partly italic and partly not.
So then I wondered, for the first example, why can't we write:
[[''Hard Candy'' (album)]]
to make the words "Hard Candy" italic, leaving the word "(album)" normal format.
Currently this would produce a red link, to a title with two pairs of actual
apostrophes. But, I can't think of any legitimate title that would contain an
apostrophe followed by another apostrophe. Generally if somebody does that they
meant to use a quotation mark.
So I was wondering if we could change the interpretation of wiki-text to ignore
grouped apostrophes when determining the target of a link, and use them as
format instructions instead.
(for example, [[RMS ''Titanic'']] would be half-italic and still point to
"RMS_Titanic" "RMS_%27%27Titanic%27%27")
charlotte
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement