On 9/22/06, Nick Jenkins nickpj@gmail.com wrote:
It's debatable whether italics or bolded text should be linked, but my gut feeling is that if the writer thought there was something special about that phrase then we should probably assume we should leave it alone.
I don't think so. New terms that are being introduced are often italicized, for instance, and those are often pretty useful to link (since they'll tend to be specialized terms that will likely be unfamiliar to the reader). Likewise, not infrequently a subset of the (bolded) initial mention of the article title will be worth linking, like '''criticisms of the [[C programming language]]'''.
Plus, you have to account for the fact that bold and italics are probably used in different ways in different languages. A few centuries back it was common to italicize all sorts of odd words in English, like (IIRC) nationalities.
Cool, I'll have a look at using this, although to a certain extent it's currently largely independent of MediaWiki (i.e. there may be no appropriate language file to grab).
Well, there's always a language file to grab; if nothing else, it will default to English. If you mean that your thingy might not have all language files handy, well, the GPL's free for a reason, right? :) Just package them all, or the appropriate subsets of them. I assume there's some way to easily check a wiki's content language.
And if it gets it wrong and suggests [[Aircraft carrier|aircraft carriers]], it's probably not as good as [[aircraft carrier]]s, but it's not a catastrophe.
True, but no reason not to be perfectionist.