On 04/06/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Phil Boswell wrote:
Steve Summit wrote:
<snip/> At some point, once Tim recovers from (or becomes inured to) his horror at sending us down this slippery slope in this hell-bent handbasket, we can think about introducing a proper built-in {{exists:}} operator, to eliminate the need for the bizarre compare-the-substitution-to-the-redlink hack. (Though I *am* appreciative of whoever devised it...)
This has now been done, for anybody interested: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions#.23ifexist:
This is all very welcome. Does it or can it extend to words that differ only by the presence, absence or variation of diacritics? A dictionary that aspires to include all words in all languages faces some significant challenges in making these terms accessible to people who have no idea about how to enter words with diacritics in the search box. Some _may_ be able to handle letters that fall within ISO 8859-1, but even they will have significant difficulties when things get a little more exotic.
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What would be useful (and perhaps not very difficult to implement) is have [[MediaWiki:Edittools]] available at [[Special:Search]].