From 5b5da9fff4ff4c2a4df20f58c2dabff0ca75e588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/"
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:32:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] thoughts on dealing with basewiki links

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 doc/todo/do_not_make_links_backwards.mdwn | 6 ++++++
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diff --git a/doc/todo/do_not_make_links_backwards.mdwn b/doc/todo/do_not_make_links_backwards.mdwn
index 09b1b9b59..7f54c26f7 100644
--- a/doc/todo/do_not_make_links_backwards.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/do_not_make_links_backwards.mdwn
@@ -40,3 +40,9 @@ The following needs to be done:
 >> There are quite likely ikiwiki page generators that build wikilinks
 >> too. One that's part of ikiwiki itself is `change.tmpl`. There may be
 >> others... --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> Agreed that it would be cleaner to just change everything, even though the transition might be painful.
+
+>>> Another interim option might be to change the basewiki links to be just \[[link to whatever]] without having a description.
+>>> That style of link would work whether the link style was "backwards" or "forwards".  Unfortunately it could make some links less readable; after all, there is a reason why one wants to be able to change the link text!  But I don't know what proportion of the links are like that.  It's a thought, anyway.
+>>> --[[KathrynAndersen]]
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