Wikipedia tag

People link to WP enough that I thought it'd be convenient to just have a tag that links the enclosed text to the appropriate page. [wiki] or [wp] would suffice.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Or you could just use [url] tags. It's even one less letter!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Eh? I'm suggesting something along the lines of [wp]foo[/wp] linking to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/foo which I think would save a lot of time.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I support this idea. Capo, we already have [youtube] tags, so I don't see the harm in adding wikipedia either.

How ya doing, buddy?

The important difference being the [youtube] tag embeds a video in your post while the proposed [wiki] tag is just a lazy [url].

I'm not really opposed to the idea, but it is a bit redundant.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Then we shall let the powers that be* decide the fate of this proposal!

*Or an Administrator, that works too

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I've never had to link to Wikipedia in any of my posts, honestly. Perhaps a better case can be made for gfwiki links?

FELIPE NO

I think I proposed this a long while ago

now I figure it's just simpler to paste a wiki link so as to not unintentionally get a redirect page or similar

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Originally Posted by KrelEN

now I figure it's just simpler to paste a wiki link so as to not unintentionally get a redirect page or similar

Yeah, there's this. Given you'd have to check the link it made to ensure it linked to the right page you might as well go find the page and then copy and paste the URL into some URL tags.

I get the idea behind this, but it all seems a bit pointless in the long run.

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