Hi Germinators [what’s the wikinym [1] for Wikispore?],
While I was trying to catch up on Abstrapedia [is that a permissible contraction? ;) ] during my first time on the call today (that was marred by some technical difficulties on my end) I was thinking that the
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikilambda:Wikilambda/Plan
was not well-linked to
the https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikilambda_talk:Wikilambda/Glossary
entries.
Are there any Wikispore processes or Mediawiki extensions could help with building glossaries and maybe automate linking to their entries where relevant? I’m imagining something like a magic word that associates a glossary page with an article, and maybe a bot that looks for occurrences of entries in the article to link, perhaps with some heuristic as to whether the intended sense might match the gloss, and maybe even with some mechanism to flag ambiguous words in the article that are yet to be linked to the proper gloss.
This could help force writers to be more concise in their writing, help readers’ understanding (especially when not having followed a topic from the outset), and perhaps help with translation of articles.
Independently of Wikispore I’d be particularly interested in what one might call hierarchical glossaries: If a term isn’t defined in the page-locally-associated glossary, the link goes to that glossary’s ‘parent glossary’ that might offer a more general, but (hopefully) still valid definition.
And for extra credit, can we come up with a solution that uses Wikidata as the glossary (or maybe Wikipetri/Wikidish?, a Wikispore-related Wikibase instance)?
best, Loren