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- <[[Brennen]]> Most of the time, I kind of despise CamelCase, the admixture of LowerCase and UpperCase (or MajusculeAndMinuscule) letters in naming objects which is a staple of both ObjectOrientedProgramming and wiki syntax.
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- That said, it does work pretty well as a convention for easily defining a wiki page. It's ugly and kind of dissatisfying, but less obtrusive than putting brackets or other punctuation around words, let alone the really hideous way [[HyperTextMarkupLanguage|HTML]] goes about defining links. On the downside, it breaks in ways with no obvious solution when used for names which are case sensitive or depend on single-letter particles. (JRRTolkien should probably be a wiki word but isn't, and how do you reconcile the obvious fix with a name like, say, Ian McGregor or Joseph McCarthy?
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- When I first installed wiki software, I turned off automatic camel case linking and tried to establish a convention that pages be given long, spaced, everything2 style names. Pretty quickly it became obvious that this was just too cumbersome, though it did have its aesthetic benefits.
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- Probably the "right" solution is to translate all wiki words into some sort of universal, case-free format. Or just not to worry about it much 'cause the existing solution mostly works.
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