Mainly because of the number of places we use things that look like links
and it just messes up the page to have tons of links that never get filled
in because we don't need to provide any more information. Part of the
problem is that lots of things that are just abbreviations look like links.
I end up suppressing lots of things and the back page is covered with stuff
that has double quotes around it. I almost did not go with FlexWiki because
of this but they really pushed me for something that would run Windows based
instead of requiring LAMP components. I've now gotten pretty familiar with
FlexWiki and do like using it and this is the one feature that's been
bugging me and the users don't like how much extra stuff they need to enter
on the page. Frankly most of them would have been happier if they could just
type in the raw HTML and be done with it - instead of learning another way
to encode the page - but that's something we have to work through.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Jimmy Sieben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> As an alternative, why not embrace the fact that the links are being
> created, and fill them in with topics?
>
>
>
> We have done that here in places, so that if you have some text with camel
> cased words, many of the linked topics are very short (perhaps just having a
> Summary: property) so that you can effectively mouse over the word and get a
> definition.
>
>
>
> That is, rather than suppress the links, just provide simple "definition
> pages" by filling in the blanks. By encouraging users to do this, very
> quickly the wiki would get filled in and then would be quite useful.
>
>
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *John Davidson
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 01, 2008 6:51 PM
> *To:* FlexWiki Users Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Flexwiki-users] Automatic Link Suppression
>
>
>
> Hi Stephen
>
>
>
> This is not a feature that would get added at this time, but when we redo
> the parser it could more easily be added.
>
>
>
> The reason for the autolink creation is that if you use a construct that
> looks like it should be a Wiki Topic then it creates the edit link and users
> know that this page should be created by someone.
>
>
>
> Another alternative that should be discussed is the use of a StopLinks
> topic where CamelCase words found in that topic do not create autolinks.
>
>
>
> John Davidson
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Stephen Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> Is there any thought in adding a feature that would suppress automatic
> link construction. I've seen this available in other wikis, such as the one
> used by WikiPedia.
>
> Here is the logic: We use the wiki for system documentation and lots and
> lots of names have CamelCase but we don't want them to all be links so the
> pages have lots of link suppression (""this is not a link""). With automatic
> links suppressed then you'd have to use the brackets [ThisIsAnExplicitLink]
> everywhere that you want the links to appear, and in our case I think this
> would be simpler and keep the source text more clear than using automatic
> links everywhere.
>
> Stephen
>
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