As from version 1.7, there is a Magic Word NEWSECTIONLINK which forces the
appearance of the "+" tab.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#More_magic

HTH HAND

wcitymike wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

As from version 1.7, there is a Magic Word NEWSECTIONLINK which forces the
appearance of the "+" tab.

I appreciate that, but what I'm suggesting is that there be an internal wikilink
that takes someone to the same address that
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:[user
name]&action=edit&section=new> does. So that one could do something akin to:
[[Special:Comment/Jimbo Wales|comment]] and that would take them to
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&action=edit&section=new.

wcitymike wrote:

Paranthetically I'm also aware of the fullurl protocol that lets you patch in an
external link regardless of server. The issue desired by the feature request
[referred to on Metafilter, humorously enough, as the IWantaPonyFilter ;-)],
however, is to avoid drastically long external links in favor of an internal
wikilink.

robchur wrote:

We have a method to allow doing this. It's not too much additional work, and to
be frank, I don't see that we need to introduce complications to an otherwise
simple [[link]] mechanism, which is nice and comprehensible for new users.