Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] WikiLinks extension

[Yuri T. <qar...@gm...>]

> Seeing that Markdown already has a simple syntax for creating labels
> for links, I'm not sure this offers any value. And, if something of
> the sort was added, I would think it should use the already
> established syntax of markdown. So perhaps: ``[[ALink]](click here)``.
> But you might as well just do ``[/ALink](click here)`` with the
> existing non-wikilink syntax.

I disagree. Furthermore, I had to do the exact same change as Peter
suggested for the Lua markdown, because I wanted precisely that
feature.

For better or worse, the WikiLinks extension already breaks with
standard Markdown and it makes sense to build on how it already works.

The alternatives you suggested don't really work. [[link]](text) is
the _opposite_ of standard markdown, which would be [text](link). Same
for [/link](text).

We could try doing something like [text](\link), but this would also
be quite confusing, since the syntax for wikilink with custom title
would be totally different form the basic wikilink.

I think if one wants to build a wiki using Markdown, [[link|title]] is
really the way to go and Peter's patch does add value to Wikilinks.

- yuri