[Wikipedia-l] a quick feature request...

Fri Nov 9 21:06:09 UTC 2001

hmmmm... I could see how this would work with systematic suffixes such as "cow/cows", but how would it convert"oxen" to "ox", "sophistry" to "sophism" or "misanthropic" to "misanthropy"? 

I think we'd need either a consistent language (which is not likely in our lifetimes), or else a huge database of how terms link to one another. Even then we'd run the risk of words like"feminine" being linked to "feminism" which is not accurate.

Manning

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gareth Owen 
  To: wikipedia-l at nupedia.com 
  Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:55 PM
  Subject: [Wikipedia-l] a quick feature request...

  I'm very lazy, so I like typing things like [[algebra]]ic to create the word
  "Algebraic" with a link to algebra.  This is convenient but ugly looking.

  Are ther compelling reasons why software shouldn't convert the whole word into
  a link, exactly like [[algebra|algebraic]] would?

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  Gareth Owen
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