https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16070

Dan Collins <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Dan Collins <[email protected]> 2011-07-15 04:28:36 UTC 
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Greetings,

This is not likely to be implemented in the wiki software itself. This is
because in order to do this, we would need to perform a query against the
entire page table every time a user attempted to edit a page, which would carry
extreme performance problems. For very small wikis, this is feasible, however
would probably have to be implemented on the client side (as JavaScript working
with the API). A few more things to consider:

Some articles have titles more than one word long, and so there could be
ambiguities in what was to be highlighted.

On wiktionaries, this would result in every incidence of 'a', 'the', and so on
being highlighted. In fact, most wikipedias have an article for every letter,
common numbers, and so on.

There are actually a few alternative wiki page editing tools - that do things
like WYSIWYG, for example - that might already do something like this, and that
are probably better suited for doing it that our default editor, which has
always been a simple textarea.

Closing wontfix.

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