Ben wrote:
Oldak Quill wrote:
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On 23/02/2008, Mohamed Magdy wrote:
Hello
Is it possible to make wiki linking (like [[article name]]) an automatic process for articles ?
I mean, like you write text in a wiki page, then you click >>suggest links>> button, then it links all the applicable article names in the page, then you review and save the page (if not, just discard them). making sure not to duplicate the links and using a link exception list so that words aren't linked (like is are she he they them could can etc.)..
--user:alnokta
I think most people create links as they go along, using their judgement as to which links would be helpful and which would not (i.e. which concepts might need further explanation). If you can write an article (decide what information is important and how much explanation to give), you should be able to choose the links as you write. They are the same skill.
The suggestor would not be intelligent and couldn't judge which links are related and which would be appropriate to suggest. I see no advantage over just going through the article and placing double square brackets around particular concepts, words and phrases.
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Though I agree with what was said about web 2.0 and intelligent linking, I think that in many cases the contributors don't know if an article on the phrase exists (and if so, under what title).. perhaps some sort of suggesting links to the contributor for "redlinks" could be beneficial.. perhaps this could be done with some semantic relations, or other options, which I can't think of now..
--Wiredtape
As a better suggestion of how this could be done.. not long ago Brion had mentioned he would like to see search everywhere and anywhere.. this could lend itself to this task as well..
Either on-the-fly ajax based search for links with similar titles, or when you click submit/save, with a check box option (asking whether to suggest links or not), and then showing options based on a similar search for the links.. one problem with this solution is that searches are only efficient when search by prefix, therefore, as an example, if you were writing an article about famous physicists and you wrote a link to [[Einstein]] and an article existed called [[Albert Einstein]] this solution wouldn't provide this suggestion..
I still think, this could work out well for red links..
--Wiredtape