[OGDev] Wiki formatting in website field

[Chris Prather]

On Jun 9, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Kake L Pugh wrote:

>
> Dom would definitely like to stop supporting this, and I mostly  
> agree with
> him.  In order to do this we need two things.

I have to agree with Dom (and you), this is probably a bad thing. I'm  
surprised it doesn't break the RDF export already.

> First of all, we need to know if this would cause a substantial  
> amount of
> hassle for people.  I know that RGL makes heavy use of the square  
> bracket
> syntax in the website field, but I'm OK with sorting that out.   
> Will this
> be an issue for anyone else?
>

As far as I know St. Paul doesn't do this.

> We'd also need an alternative way of deciding on the link text for  
> long URLs.
> Possibilities:
>  * Another metadata field (downside: the edit form is already  
> pretty full)
>  * Fixed text defined by us, e.g. "Home page of this  
> place" (downside: not sure
>    it's possible to come up with something suitable that everyone  
> will like)
>  * Some method of generating link text from the URL.  Dom suggested  
> just using
>    the domain name, so e.g. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/ 
> AMR.html
>    would display as
>      Website: [www.nationalrail.co.uk]
>    or maybe
>      Website: [nationalrail.co.uk]
>
> Thoughts?

Well you can do what dispy does online and grab the title from the  
remote page, or go through a shortener like xrl.us

-Chris