Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

It's fairly common knowledge that a wikilink such as [[Cricket (insect)|]] will produce a 
link that points to [[Cricket (insect)]] but displays as "Cricket". Such notational 
shorthand is of even greater usefulness when dealing with titles that are longer and/or 
more difficult to type/spell. I suggest the following improvements:

1. Keep this functionality, but refrain from actually expanding the second half of the 
link. This will reduce the resulting byte count when dealing with particularly long 
titles, and make the affected paragraphs easier to edit (or even comprehend when reading 
them from the editing box). For example, [[Six Degrees of Separation (film)|]] should 
link and display in the rendered page output the same way it does now, but retain the 
same brevity in the saved wikitext, rather than expanding to [[Six Degrees of Separation 
(film)|Six Degrees of Separation]].

2. Expand the functionality of the pipe trick to accommodate comma-separated ordered 
pairs. For example, I'd like to be able to type [[Providence, Rhode Island|]] or [[Diana, 
Princess of Wales|]], and produce links with the displayed text "Providence" or "Diana" 
just as it would if the actual target pages were "Providence (Rhode Island)" and "Diana 
(Princess of Wales)" rather than the generally accepted comma conventions for nobility 
and postal locations.

3. Finally, I'd like to be able to use the pipe trick in edit summaries (and for block/
deletion/protection/pagemove reasons of course). Attempting to do so currently produces 
non-clickable text. Again, this should occur in a non-bloating manner, so that it does 
not count against the maximum byte count of edit comments.

I don't foresee any adverse effects with regard to backward compatability.

--user:freakofnurture