I once wrote some very, very silly code that kind of works for Hebrew, and could possibly be adapted to other languages:
https://github.com/amire80/znavot Pull requests welcome :) בתאריך יום ה׳, 4 באוק׳ 2018, 19:59, מאת Thiemo Kreuz < thiemo.kr...@wikimedia.de>: > Hey! > > The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same: > <span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For > example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es­tag". > > Not long ago <b/> was often used. This became a problem with the > recent parser updates. All <b/> got replaced with <nowiki />, as far > as I'm aware of. > > > in German, shouldn't they be tweaking the "linktrail" setting on dewiki, > instead of using `<nowiki/>`? What are cases where they *do* want the link > to include the entire word? > > The software feature exists because of English [[word ending]]s. The > same exists in German ("viele [[Wiki]]s, viele [[Tisch]]e, viele > [[Arbeit]]en"), but is overshadowed by the fact that German is a > language with many composites. From my experience, the fact that all > linktrails, no matter how long, become part of the link is almost > always a problem. It enlarges the click region, which is good, but > surprises the reader when he ends at an unexpected article. I guess it > would actually be a net-gain when the feature gets turned off or tuned > down in German wikis. For example, we could limit the length of the > linktrail to 2 characters. > > Is somebody interested in creating usage statistics for these > linktrails in the German Wikipedia main namespace? > > Best > Thiemo > > [1] > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verlinken#Verlinkung_von_Teilw%C3%B6rtern > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
