Question

What exactly are the rules for a WikiWord when it comes to numbers?

How come Iso17799Standard? or Basel2Accord? or Ft04t2a7Group? or Lecture4 and Birthday5Sep1972? don't show up as WikiWords unless they are explicitly forced by surrounding them with square brackets

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-- AntonAylward - 18 Aug 2005

Answer

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The WikiWord link above explains this and gives the specific example-- T5Wiki? and Md5sumsAfterBurning? -- as Bad examples for WikiWords with explaination.

-- PhilipIsaacson - 19 Aug 2005

I'm trying to establish boundary conditions. As with so many topics, I've found the documentation doens't deal with some cases I deal with, and the only way to ensure the process of improving the documentation and the code is by pushing at the boundaries.

If I take the numerical charecters out of the examples I gave they become WikiWords. Many terms, not least of all standards and agreements, have numbers in the representing revisions or dates. When a wiki is being used for policy, conformance, or document tracking, those nunbers are important.

I'm probing, not least of all, to esatblish if the present implementation of dealing with embedded numbers in WikiWords is inadequate.

There are people here for whom terms like Iso17799Standard? and/or Basel2Accord? are part of their every day use. Perhaps we do need to reconsider what the rules are for numbers in WikiWords.

-- AntonAylward - 19 Aug 2005

I agree with you Anton as WikiWords are an invention of convienience, maybe we should make thme more convienient!

-- SvenDowideit - 20 Aug 2005

I am reluctant to change the TWiki's WikiWord link rule since it will introduce undesirable side-effects with existing content. The only way I support this if it is done configurable, with the default set to the current rule.

-- PeterThoeny - 22 Aug 2005