Having read several prior posts on this general topic, automatic
linking, I can certainly understand the 'against automatic linking' view
from the perspective of a generalized wiki with many common words as
wiki pages. However, for a specialized wiki with pages that are not
likely to be common words, automatic linking has benefits. One example
of this, on another platform, is
planetmath.org.
I would be interested in a bot that can do automatic linking for my own
site, Emilien. The kind of functionality I am envisioning is to edit the
wiki's pages to make words into wikilinks (limited to pages within the
same wiki, not intrawiki) where the word is also the exact title of an
existing wiki page. The ability to determine whether the page gets
edited or depending on, say, its category might be useful.
If this is an inappropriate thread for this list, folks, please say so,
and we can take this offline tout de suite.
/mjp
Thomas Koll wrote:
DO NOT create links automatically.
Link sshould be created with good reason or else almost everything would be
a link in a few weeks time. Having some heart disease is no reason to
link to
"Heart Disease" (except in a wiki about heart diseases, maybe). If the
person
did research in this field the links is necessary.
ciao, tom