Wiki links?

[Caroline Ford]

Matthew East wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, February 21, 2007 9:45 pm, Caroline Ford wrote:
>   
>> Toby Smithe wrote:
>>     
>>> Does Launchpad (Beta) support Wiki links, in Wiki [] style, to link
>>> directly to the Ubuntu Wiki? /me doesn't want to mess up a bug comment
>>> by trying it out. If not, I feel it would make a nice addition.
>>>
>>> Toby
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Ubuntu - for reasons best known to itself uses the old MoinMoin wiki
>> engine which makes links using CamelCase rather than [[like this]]. I
>> guess that linking all camel case to a wiki page would break massively.
>>     
>
> You should probably read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpOnLinking before
> giving out misinformation like that - there are several convenient ways to
> make links using MoinMoin, including [url linktext], ["pagename"] or
> [:pagename:linktext].
>
>
>   
I've no desire to get into a flame war on this thing and should have 
ignored the question. I'm not familar with all the various ways of 
linking in MoinMoin as I think it's an awful piece of software and don't 
use it. As a wikipedian I find it really painful and I still don't 
understand why we use it and even put in for google summer of code money 
for it. My best guess is that it's because it's written in python.

Caroline