[WikiEN-l] Delinking years and only making links relevant to the context considered harmful

[Charlotte Webb]

On 10/12/08, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> It might be better than "first use" which places a lot of links in the
> intro, since that is the place I am least likely to want to follow
> links except when I need definitions in order to understand the text.
> But I do not believe that once per rough screen would resolve the
> "link not available where I want it" problem. … but the ability to
> highlight-search would.

Highlighting a few words to trigger an ajax script and colors them
based on whether they match an article title?

Haha, that would be WYSIWYG Editing 101 if you could also set it to
save afterwards!!

I like this idea better:

> There are two reasonable ways I see to close the gap to 100% there:
>
> 1) Have a 'grouping markup' in the text, or multiple link types. I.e.
> [[{12 June}]], it's not a link but it would indicate that the
> contained text is an atomic unit.  This would assist all forms of
> machine parsing.

This would be great if it includes:
1. Database table to track these non-link links.
2. Various whatlinkshere modes to list them apart from or together
with regular links.
3. Extend date format prefs with option to make dates coloured and clickable.
4. Checkbox for #3 enabled by default.
5. Some flag/parameter to prevent month/day inversion within quoted passages.

Make it happen, Greg!

—C.W.