[Mediawiki-l] questions about linking

[Jan Steinman]

> From: "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale at gmail.com>
>
> On 4/25/06, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25/04/06, Elliott F. Cable <ecable at avxw.com> wrote:
>>> MediaWiki does not come default with any such feature.
>>>
>>> On Apr 24, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Tin Wong wrote:
>>>
>>>> so mediawiki didnt have auto interlink right ? for example i have
>>>> a  page
>>>> called (CDROM) , when later on someone create a page have word
>>>> (CDROM) is
>>>> that possible to auto generate a link to (CDROM) page without  
>>>> type any
>>>> square brackets ?
>
> I'd think that there are some other questions about just what the
> right specifications for such a feature should be.
>
> For example, let's say that you don't have a CDROM article now but one
> gets added in the future.  Should existing pages be rescanned to
> generate auto-links?

Perhaps Tim should consider one of the many CamelCase wikis out there?

They have a certain appeal that is missing from [[explicitly linked]]  
wikis, although I'm not aware of any CamelCase wikis that have the  
feature set of MediaWiki. (Or else I'd probably be using it. :-)

(For those who aren't aware, in the original WikiWikiWeb invented by  
Ward Cunningham, anything with InternalCaseChanges automagically  
became a link. This is commonly referred to as "CamelCase" -- for the  
"hump" in the middle -- wiki. See http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki? 
CamelCase .)


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