[pmwiki-users] Polish vs polis (was: A Wiktionary with PmWiki?)

John Rankin john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Thu Nov 10 14:35:55 CST 2005


On Friday, 11 November 2005 9:28 AM, Bronwyn Boltwood <arndis at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 11/10/05, chr at home.se <chr at home.se> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>Anyway, the thing about [[polish]] vs [[Polish]] makes me wonder if this
>is something we need to handle differently. Maybe the system could work as
>follows (inspired by google): When you click on [[polish]], but [[Polish]]
>also exist, you can get the text "Did you mean: [[Polish]]".
>Or maybe we could have an action/link for listing pages with a similar
>name (including minor mispellings)
>
> Wikipedia has a pretty good solution for this, with their
>disambiguation pages
>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disambiguation). 
>example:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury
>
Yes and the subpage markup in the Cookbook provides a way to support
this for PmWiki, although it needs a bit of refinement.

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JR
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John Rankin






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