https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24222
--- Comment #3 from Brett Zamir <bret...@yahoo.com> 2010-07-02 05:15:19 UTC --- Yes, absolutely for IRC URLs too. Two more cases, though I'm sure the list could keep going on, especially for such a vast site as Wikipedia... 1) In one of my Firefox extensions, Unicode Input Tool/Converter (at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5235 ), I've implemented support for my custom protocol which allows linking to display Unicode characters, e.g., in context with their code point, definition, etc. I think this could be useful for language pages. See http://brett-zamir.me/tests/unicodeProtocolExamples.html for example links. 2) While I'm not sure whether Wikimedia would be open to the idea of encouraging links which could be redirected to other encyclopedias, given Wikimedia's support of choice and standards, perhaps it would be willing to work with other encyclopedias (whether wiki-based or not) to create a generic protocol for referencing an encyclopedic article, allowing browser redirects via use of this protocol (as my Open URIs extension already supports) from a site which did not wish to favor any particular encyclopedia but did wish to provide links for the convenience of its users. Of course, there would need to be a means of deciding which article names were canonical, but if nothing else, such links could use Wikipedia names as a base. For example, there might be a protocol, "pedia:" in a link like "pedia:?show=Love" and it would open the article "Love" in the user's favorite encyclopedic site (or local program). Or "pedia:?edit=Love" could bring one to the edit page (or alternatively, perhaps another protocol could specify editability: edit:?uri=pedia:?show=Love). The protocol could also be designed to allow the user to configure whether they wished to be brought to an edit page if the page's HEAD request did not turn up a Last-Modified, or to search another encyclopedia. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
