I see the same problems like Gregory ... for big wikis. Auto-Linking would be impossible on wikipedia or meta-mediawiki.
But most wikis are much smaller, and there are working often people with much less knowledge about the wiki-prinzip and the wiki-syntax.
I administer a few wikis with 100-500 articles, and I would like to have the auto-link-feature for in every wiki.
But, yes, i know ... the features are designed for the use on wikipedia ...
If someone knows a good extension for autolinking ... let us know :)
Regards, Jan
Gregory Szorc schrieb:
This has been proposed numerous times. There is even a bug and basic patch in Bugzilla somewhere. Automatic wikification sounds like a great idea until the vocabulary of wiki articles grows big and you run into three problems:
- It takes a long time to scan the article on save looking for matching
articles (you have to search for one, two, three, four, ... word titles)
- You get false positives on the wikification, especially with common
words. For example, my university's common name is "Case." Every time someone types "In case of ...", you get a false positive on "case." You then have to maintain a dictionary of words or phrases to not automatically wikify. This compounds #1.
- [[you]] [[encounter]] [[paragraphs]] [[like]] [[this]] [[that]] [[are]]
[[very]] [[annoying]] [[to]] [[read]] [[and]] [[edit]].
Many wiki software packages use CamelCase to denote wiki links and CamelCased words are automatically wikified. MediaWiki does not do this.
I hope that answers your questions.
Gregory Szorc gregory.szorc@gmail.com
On 10/30/06, Thomas thomas@klassisk.dk wrote:
Is it possible to let the wikisoftware create wikilinks in articles (to other articles on the wiki).
Example: I write an article named automobile. It contains the word engine many places. Later I write an article named engine.
Do I have to create links (in the automobile article and other articles containing the word engine) to the engine article manually ?
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