I'm pretty sure it's #2

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Jon Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> I read this question 2 ways.
>
> #1 - You want an extension that will automatically link words to Wikipedia,
> that are not currently linked. This would be very difficult to
> implement efficiently (with multi word titles being taken into account) and
> would end up with half of your text as wikilinks, IE [1][2][3][4]
>
> #2 - You want an extension that will replace redlinks, where possible, with
> links to wikipedia.  I don't know how the parser engine handles links like
> that, but I'm sure a hack could be made that would be reasonable.
>
> Which were you talking about?
> -Jon
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The
> [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 16:55, Wjhonson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Right now the logic is that if you have a link using the [[ ]] the code
> > will check that there is a page with that name.
> >
> > What I want to do is add to that, that if there is NOT, then it checks to
> > see if there is a page with that name at En.Wikipedia
> >
> > Is there already an extension that does that?  Does anyone see any
> problem
> > with modding the code to do this?
> >
> >
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