Wiki links in ingame chat [added]

[Dellirium]

Joined October 2010

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[Dellirium] 2012-06-30T16:03:18+00:00

First (main) suggestion:

Add possibility to create links to osu!wiki by typing them in wiki markup.

Examples:
[[FAQ]] will result in [[FAQ]]
[[FAQ|please read]] will result in [[please read]]

Thus it will be easier to give special links when someone asks something. Also as people turn to wiki more often it will be more useful.

Second (optional) suggestion:

Add more wiki-related markup.

For me default link creation in chat is too difficult and illogical (link after description). I always forget what to use first, () or [].
In wiki you use the following:
[http://example.com description]
This is much easier, isn't it?

those

3,136 posts

Joined November 2010

those 2012-07-02T00:43:57+00:00

It's just a matter of how ppy decides to let IRC parse certain key combinations. This is rather unnecessary, since we already have a system of (text)[url].

Also, I don't know if you have discovered yet, but [url text] is what you call an external link, denoted by that symbol that you see after the link if you choose to express one in this format. With that being said, [[article name|text]] wouldn't make sense in IRC since there are no articles within the osu! client itself, and [url text] can certainly leave more space for errors than (text)[url].

I bet you have just learned about wiki code, haven't you P:

[Dellirium]

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Joined October 2010

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[Dellirium] 2012-07-02T08:59:52+00:00

It's just a matter of how ppy decides to let IRC parse certain key combinations. This is rather unnecessary, since we already have a system of (text)[url].

As I said, this system is too illogical and too hard to remember for newbies.

[[article name|text]] wouldn't make sense in IRC since there are no articles within the osu! client itself

But there are articles on the website, but in case of answering a question you have to open wiki, type the article, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V... Better not to answer.

[url text] can certainly leave more space for errors than (text)[url]

What errors? o.o Show an example.

I bet you have just learned about wiki code, haven't you P:

I write articles in wiki since 2008 :Р
We have an IRC channel with these functions, and I haven't see any errors yet. Also our bot can parse link headers and show them, so everyone can know what link have.

peppy

19,312 posts

Here since the beginning

peppy 2012-07-02T10:23:22+00:00

Will definitely add this.

[Dellirium]

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Joined October 2010

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[Dellirium] 2012-07-03T01:37:07+00:00

Wow, so fast... Already seen this in test client.

What about the rest? Will you add this in future or you didn't like the ideas?

peppy