[Wikipedia-l] Wikification function proposal

[Jan Hidders]

From: "Brion L. VIBBER" <brion at pobox.com>
> On ĵaŭ, 2002-02-28 at 08:06, Jan Hidders wrote:
> > From: <kband at www.llamacom.com>
> > >
> > > The new software renders [[hand|hands]] and [[hand]]s the same
> > > as a single link (try it!), [...]
> >
> > Hmm, isn't that a bit language specific? I'd prefer it if we didn't have
> > language specific things in our central code base.
>
> What the actual code does isn't quite so specific. If a [[link]] is
> immediately followed by some chunk of the lowercase letters [a-z], the
> link gets expanded over that area. So the entire word will appear as a
> link in:
>   [[link]]s = [[link|links]]
>   [[link]]ing = [[link|linking]]
>   [[ligilo]]n = [[ligilo|ligilon]]
>   [[I forgot the]]space = [[I forgot the|I forgot thespace]]

Ok. Then I have no problem with it.

-- Jan Hidders