On 6/29/07, Dave Sigafoos davesigafoos@sanmar.com wrote:
This *could* be done with an extension during the 'Save Page' process. Probably be work on a 'keyword' list similar to the way Firefox spell checker works. Where you could add words/phrases etc. Hmmm ..
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-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jack Eapen C Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 23:25 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Automatically linking wiki words
Is there a way to automatically link the wiki words in an article? i.e. suppose in an article, there may be words like "open source" or "software" for which articles are there in the wiki. Currently we have to manually link them like [[open source]] or [[software]]. But most of the cases, the author may not be knowing whether that article exists or not, or there may be case inconsistencies. Is it possible to automatically link the words or phrases that has an entry in the page table as titles?
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Jack
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This could probably be done as an extension, however the only way I can envisage it being done would use a tremendous amount of resources. In many wikis the page table is huge, so it would take literally hours.
Although this seams like a good idea on the face of it, you might end up with entire paragraphs where every word is a wiki link (this, of course, depends on the wiki). This would have to be done as an extension and could only work on a small subset of wikis.