Steve Bennett wrote:
> Never noticed this before. Compare these:
> 
> [[foo|]]
> [[foo| ]]
> 
> Both render as if they were [[foo]], but the first one is replaced by
> [[foo|foo]] at savetime, while the second one isn't it. Feature or
> bug?

[[foo| ]] doesn't render as [[foo]], at least on wikipedia. It's 
rendering as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Foo&amp;action=edit" 
class="new" title="Foo"></a>
So it's trying to render it as a space linking to Foo and somehow the 
space is trimmed.
I'm unsure about the correct behaviour. Syntax should be a space link, 
but doing that is a bit weird.

> I'm a bit skeptical about the need to transform pipetricks at
> savetime. I think a developer once explained it as not wanting third
> party users of wikitext to have to know the transformation rules, but
> that sounds pretty flimsy to me.
> 
> Steve

Agree. I remember some discussions about that pointing out that people 
didn't learn about those save-time tricks because they weren't present 
on wikitext.

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