845 [[#foo|]], [[/bar|]] should be equivalent to [[#foo|foo]], [[/bar|bar]] (new use of "pipe trick")

In many cases a link to a named anchor for a section within the current page
would have an anchor text that is the same as the heading of the section. This
would make such links easier to type. Similar is the case with subpages. Note
that the text displayed should not have obfuscations like ".3F." used in the
anchor (e.g. ".3F." should be "?").

Just for your information:

If the name of a (sub-) section is repeated, " 2", " 3" ... will be append 
to the name of the (transliterated) anchors. See 
[[test:User:Gangleri/tests/anchors#dummy 2]] 
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gangleri/tests/anchors#dummy_2.

Three other anchors are used in there too:
<font id="á" />á with á as a special character
<div id="5" />5
<font id="6" />6

See [[test:User:Gangleri/tests/anchors#5]]. Works.
See [[test:User:Gangleri/tests/anchors#6]]. Works. 
See [[test:User:Gangleri/tests/anchors#á]] translates to 
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gangleri/tests/anchors#%C3%A1 and will 
not work.
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gangleri/tests/anchors#á with á not 
translated would work only if I copy and paste it in my browser (IE).

Regards Reinhardt   See also [[bugzilla:670|bug 670]].

Oops! Reinhardt WIEWE seems to have misunderstood what I meant. I'm not worried
about .3F. etc. present in the anchor. What I'm saying is [[#foo?|]] should
produce <a href="#foo.3F." ...>foo?</a> and not <a href="#foo.3F."
...>foo.3F.</a>. Currently [[#foo?|]] does the same as <nowiki>[[#foo?|]]</nowiki>.

You can already do this for the subpages case. Just add an extra 
slash, like [[/bar/]]

*** Bug 1489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[added phrase "pipe trick" to the summary to make this bug more searchable]

Dear friends,

See [[meta:Help:Piped link#Automatic conversion of the wikitext (pipe trick)]]:
"if there is a text in parentheses at the end it will be removed"

Many locations are using a comma as [[Chicago, Illinois]]. [[Chicago,
Illinois|]] does not generate a link.

It should be evaluated:
- if comma could trigger the "piped trick"
- if other characters as / should trigger it also
- if the pipe trick should generate always a link ( now not "simple" titles in
the article namespace as [[New York|]] )
- if "multiple" pipes should remouve recursively one prefix after the other

Please see
[[Wikipedia talk:Piped link#Pipe trick for additional 50.2C000 titles]]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Piped_link#Pipe_trick_for_additional_50.2C000_titles

Additional test cases at [[User:Gangleri/tests/unknown]]

Best regards Reinhardt [[User:gangleri]]

Hallo!

Please see some test examples at
http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Project:Piped_links

The "piped link trick" should work whenever there is an agreement about a
*single* interpretation.

It is questionable if  [[Project:FAQ#Q 10|]] - "Project:FAQ#Q 10|" should be
[[Project:FAQ#Q 10|FAQ#Q 10]] - "Project:FAQ#Q 10|FAQ#Q 10" according to the
documentation or not.

Best regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

*** Bug 3003 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

"Just add an extra slash, like [[/bar/]]"

That's bizarre.  Why use two different syntaxes for the same thing?

*** Bug 3114 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Pasting an additional comment from dupe:
> This would be only a part of the enhancement. For full usability, full paths
> should also be converted, e. g. [[Programming in Ada/Types/Strings|]] should be
> converted to [[Programming in Ada/Types/Strings|Strings]].

(In reply to comment #11)
> Pasting an additional comment from dupe:
> > e. g. [[Programming in Ada/Types/Strings|]] should be
> > converted to [[Programming in Ada/Types/Strings|Strings]].

See also Bug 3058:

Multiple pipes should remove multiple prefixes: [[Foo:Bar:Baz||]] =
[[Foo:Bar:Baz|Baz]]

Is there any chance that this will ever happen?

(In reply to comment #9)
> "Just add an extra slash, like [[/bar/]]"
> 
> That's bizarre.  Why use two different syntaxes for the same thing?

Pipe trick substitutes. The trailing / just hides the /.
Quite simply [[/bar/]] stays as [[/bar/]] while [[Foo:Bar|]] becomes
[[Foo:Bar|Bar]].

Actually, # is a similar case. Why not go with that and [[#anchor#]].