Hi Germinators [what’s the wikinym [1] for Wikispore?],
While I was trying to catch up on Abstrapedia [is that a permissible
contraction? ;) ] during my first time on the call today (that was
marred by some technical difficulties on my end) I was thinking that the
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikilambda:Wikilambda/Plan
was not well-linked to
the
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikilambda_talk:Wikilambda/Glossary
entries.
Are there any Wikispore processes or Mediawiki extensions could help
with building glossaries and maybe automate linking to their entries
where relevant? I’m imagining something like a magic word that
associates a glossary page with an article, and maybe a bot that looks
for occurrences of entries in the article to link, perhaps with some
heuristic as to whether the intended sense might match the gloss, and
maybe even with some mechanism to flag ambiguous words in the article
that are yet to be linked to the proper gloss.
This could help force writers to be more concise in their writing, help
readers’ understanding (especially when not having followed a topic from
the outset), and perhaps help with translation of articles.
Independently of Wikispore I’d be particularly interested in what one
might call hierarchical glossaries: If a term isn’t defined in the
page-locally-associated glossary, the link goes to that glossary’s
‘parent glossary’ that might offer a more general, but (hopefully) still
valid definition.
And for extra credit, can we come up with a solution that uses Wikidata
as the glossary (or maybe Wikipetri/Wikidish?, a Wikispore-related
Wikibase instance)?
best,
Loren
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