On 9/22/06, Nick Jenkins <nickpj(a)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.