Rik Serpentier <Rik.Serpentier(a)vmw.be> wrote:
A user marks the word "wiki" as internal
link. Is
it afterwards possible to let MediaWiki mark every occurance of "wiki"
automatically, and point to the corresponding page ? Or is it necessary to
create every link manually ?
No, every link has to be manually marked as such, and there are
several good reasons for this:
* some article names may happen to be very common words, and linking
every instance of them would be ugly; not to mention that some of
those links would probably be irrelevant, referring to a different
meaning of the term.
* if an article name can be any number of words long, a given set of
words could be linked in multiple ways: "[[North]] [[America]]" versus
"[[North America]]", for instance; or "to [[kill]] a [[mockingbird]]"
versus "[[to kill a mockingbird]]".
Some wikis (including the very first) link everything that's
WrittenInCamelCase, so that just typing the title of a page creates a
link to it. But since typing ToKillAMockingBird isn't really any more
natural than [[To Kill a Mockingbird]], this doesn't really amount to
anything more "automatic" than what MediaWiki does. And, indeed, it
puts rather artificial contraints on what your page titles can be, and
what kind of links you can have pointing at them.
HTH
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]