2009/2/20 Mingli Yuan <mingli.y...@gmail.com>: > Since "Songhu Hui" use Wordpress, so I just propose a technical idea to > improve the cooperation between Wikimedia and "Songhu Hui". How about a > keyword-link-generator to Wikipedia for Wordpress? This new Wordpress plugin > will query Wikipedia to get a keyword list, and then make links in article > in Wordpress automatically. But some technical problems still be there, for > example, the Chinese word segmentation.
I can certainly see the benefit of this, but automatic linking is full of problems. I don't know Chinese, so I'll have to give examples in English, hopefully the concepts still apply: Should words like "the" be linked? Probably not, but that means we need a list of words to exclude, that list may not really be the same for all articles (an advanced article might not link words that a more basic article would, for example). Should "blue whale" be "[[blue]] [[whale]]" or "[[blue whale]]"? This is almost impossible to deal with in English, I expect it is different in Chinese, but I don't know if it would be easier or harder. Link suggestion is much easier - perhaps we could write a plugin that suggests possible words to link to Wikipedia and the author can choose which ones are appropriate. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l