From: Matt Pattison <mfp@...>
Date: 2004-04-21T00:41:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Instiki 0.7.0 - [[C]] not CeeLanguage?

* Curt Hibbs (curt@hibbs.com) [040420 23:17]:
> Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> >
> > David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> > > What's new in Instiki 0.7.0?
> >
> > I've got a proposition for the next version: remove CamelCase and use
> > links like this: [[Wiki Page]].
> >
> > Cons:
> > - more to type
> >
> > Pros:
> > - no accidental linking
> > - no need to escape WikiWords
> > - no need to invent stupid names for wiki pages: having to write
> >   "CeeLanguage" if you mean "C" sucks big time
> > - wiki pages get a higher page rank: for most search engines the URL
> >   ".../show/WikiPage" doesn't contain the word "Wiki", so the page is
> >   ranked lower in a search for "Wiki" as it would if the words in the
> >   Url were seperated by " " or "_"
> > - Wikipedia does it
> >
> > Please tell me what you think about it.
> 
> I would be in strong favor of this.
> 
> I have a lot of wikis that I run and I set up every one of them to use [[My
> Wiki Page]] and specifically not allow MyWikiPage for all of the reasons
> listed above.
> 
> Curt
>

I support this also. I've hacked together support for [[Word]] instead of
WordAnotheruselessword in my copy of Instiki-0.6.0, based on
http://ruby-talk.org/97395 , as it was annoying me. I think at least the option
of this proposal should be in the official version, if David is agreeable, if
only because I don't like the idea of reapplying my hack to a rapid succession
of new releases. 

Matt