It is true that automatic wikifaction of everything is a bad idea, but there is a very good application for restricted automatic wikifaction. With that I mean that only specific special words in specified contexts would be automatically linked. Such as technical terms and abbreviations. The reason is that at the time of creating a specific page there were no pages for all the terms and the original author did not intent to create them, but when the wiki evolves they are created. What I have in mind is that all the words that have an article in a category "Auto_Words" are autowikified in articles in category, say, "Auto_Me".

ext Gregory Szorc wrote:

You are referring to automatic wikification. There is an existing patch to do this at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2336. Automatic wikification for Wikipedia has been proposed numerous times on this list. Every time it is, people bring up good reasons why it should not be implemented, especially on large wikis. For more information, search the archives of this list.

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On 5/3/06, Amit Vyas amitvyas.cse@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi all, I am planning to work on Mediawiki for google SoC, in particular I think of following project,

While editing we need to take care of adding relevant [[page title | some text ]] for the words which already have a page created. there is no functionality for this as I know.

I would like to know is this functionality required ?

This project at instance appears to be text parsing one which Please suggest on this.

I have last test on 8th/may so I have not gone into details as of now.

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That was anyway what I need personally sometimes, and just for the comments except from performance related issues there should not be any problem with such a extension/feature since we all do it manually every time. Anyway thanks, I would try to look for some other interesting work.

A overall look on projects available http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2006#Evaluate_PostgreSQL_as_an... to me intresting to me following was straight

- get this existing PostgreSQL support working properly again - benchmark it on heavy simulated loads

can I get comments on what exactly you mean by

- study the scalability of using Postgres' built-in replication support for large installations such as Wikipedia

If possible can I ask what is the motivation for using postgres (I have always worked with Mysql only :( . )

On 5/3/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:

Amit Vyas wrote:

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Hi all, I am planning to work on Mediawiki for google SoC, in particular I think

of

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following project,

While editing we need to take care of adding relevant [[page title |

some

...

text ]] for the words which already have a page created. there is no functionality for this as I know.

This is not something we would generally consider to be very useful or practical, so would not likely be accepted as a Summer of Code project.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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