[mythtv-users] wiki mythtv member rigs: mini description in link (request)
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Fri May 16 01:29:36 UTC 2008
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:27:08PM -0400, diane mittnik wrote:
> I was taking a look at the wiki the other day for ideas on a decent
> but affordable frontend/backend setup and found the mythmember rigs
> page. The top page has a link to each member's description of their
> setup. But the top page only has their nick/name in the link. I
> thought I hit paydirt, but I found that I had to click on every link
> just to find which rigs were Intel or AMD, which had an nVidia card vs
> an ATI card, etc.
>
> It would be a good idea for the future (and if someone wants to take
> the time for the current rigs) to include in the link description for
> each reader's rig, for example: nick/AMD or Intel/nVidia or
> ATI/capture card abbreviation-model#/approx $/ and especially, date
> rig built or put into service or maybe order by date instead of
> nick/alphabetical?
If you're suggesting that the link *text* (or something next to it on a
page of links) ought to include that, then yeah, that sounds like a
decent idea.
If you're suggesting that *link names themselves* ought to be changes
to look like that (as I originally thought you were), then I'd
disagree, for reasons which may not be obvious, so I'll state them: the
purpose of page/article names on a MediaWiki in particular, and wikiae,
in general) is to be so easy to use in writing running text that you
have a fighting change of merely putting in the brackets, and having a
working link.
(This is, in particular, the reason for the page name capitalization
rules in the MW engine.)
Cheers,
- jra
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