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 ?
Or can it be done automatically ?
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:
1) 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)
2) 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.
3) [[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 ?
Or can it be done automatically ? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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 ?
Or can it be done automatically ? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Gregory Szorc schrieb:
There is even a bug and basic patch in Bugzilla somewhere.
I couldnt find this. Can someone give me a link or a name of an extension, which automatical creates wikilinks of existing aricles?
Regards, Jan
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