Dear Developers and fellow Wikipedians
I wrote this idea of Client Side Accelerated Wikifying up in
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_Avantgarde_Client_Side_Accelerated_Wi
kifying or [[HACSAW]] for short
It would make wikifying articles more easy, intuitive, faster and more
_accurate_ if implemented and I believe it is in the spirit of Wikipedia.
It could possibly reduce the load on the server because currently people
have to fetch full rendered articles if they want to be sure they are
linking to the correct article. Context is not always what you presume and
HACSAW would take some of this "fetch-and-glance" load off the servers.
One of the biggest obstacles I see in implementing HACSAW is that it
cannot be implemented as a browser plugin because that would seriously
violate the egalitarian nature of Wikipedia due to people being divided
into two groups: those who can get the plugin and those who cannot
A Java applet could be the solution, but I have no knowledge of how to
make persistent client side data structures available to an applet.
If you have know-how on building applets that use persistent (browser and
system shutdown persistance is needed) client side data storages please
take a look at [[m:HACSAW]] and help us push the envelope further.
Kind regards and a big thanks for this great wiki implementation, Juxo
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