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diff --git a/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn b/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn index cdd8a03b1..86a72a4e2 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn @@ -185,3 +185,20 @@ So, looking at your meta branch: --[[Joey]] `pagetemplate` hook. (Although this would eliminate handling of `title_overridden` -- but that is little used and would not catch all the other ways titles can be overridden with this patch anyway.) + +> I'm not a reviewer or anything, but can I chime in on changes to pagetitle? +> I don't think having meta-titles in wikilinks and the parentlinks path by +> default is necessarily a good thing. I don't consider the meta-title of a page +> as used in `<title>` to be the same thing as the short title you +> want in those contexts - IMO, the meta-title is the "formal" title of the page, +> enough to identify it with no other context, and frequently too long to be used +> as a link title or a parentlink, whereas the parentlinks title in particular +> should be some abbreviated form that's enough to identify it in context. +> [tbm](http://www.cyrius.com/) expressed a similar opinion when I was discussing +> ikiwiki with him at the weekend. +> +> Having a `\[[!meta abbrev="..."]]` that took precedence over title +> in such contexts might be a good way to fix this? Or if your preference goes +> the other way, perhaps a `\[[!meta longtitle=""]]` could take precedence +> when generating the `<title>` and the title that comes after the parentlinks. +> --[[smcv]] |