Lars Aronsson wrote:
In German, these different word endings are never (?)
longer than the
last two characters of a word, which made me suggest the following
algorithm, from which I think the Swedish and Danish Wikipedia could
also benefit:
As you've already pointed out in your other mail, this will return too
many false positives (e.g. Jack Mark Doe -> Jane Mary Dew; those are
just fabricated names, but you get the idea).
I'm also opposed to making it language-specific. That'd be too complex.
My suggestion on the mailing list was to introduce new mark-up that
makes it quicker to type an equivalent to
[[Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation|Heiligen Römischen Reiches
Deutscher Nation]]: either
[[Heilige[s|n] Römische[s|n] Reich[|es] Deutscher Nation]]
or
[[Heiliges^n Römisches^n Reich ^es Deutscher Nation]]
I prefer the latter.
I know this looks a little bit complex at first, but I'm sure you'll
have figured it out in no time (esp. Germans who need it all the time).
Even if you can't get used to it or figure it out, that doesn't matter
much, because
1) When you read the source text, you don't really need to know
*exactly* how the mark-up works, you can still easily guess
where the link goes to.
2) When you *edit* the source text, you can always use the
original pipe notation.
A case where I've always wanted this in English:
[[socialism^t]]
Greetings,
Timwi