This would speed up the WHOLE PROCESS so much - wow what an excellent suggestion. Anything that adds to the automation of linking between articles and aids in navigation can only help spread the up take of the platform as a whole.
I'd like to see that too. The current system is good, no question, but for longer texts I would like to see a certain (semi)automatism that then only considers the title of the corresponding article. It would also be nice if certain words (title of the respective article) were already highlighted in colour while writing. Perhaps, as a bonus, a list of words could be displayed that are linked after you have pressed something like a "parser button".
Regarding the previous two messages: this feature doesn't exist yet. What this suggestion is about is not simply the "mention system" (which exists) but rather an automated system that would allow a writer to click one button to have WA automatically add "@ mentions" to their text based on articles that they already have in that world. Another function would be to write an article about "Sausages" and then be able to press another button to link that article to every other article that has the word "sausage" in their text. Of course, both these features should only add the mention of any article only ONCE to any other article. I myself would definitely use this. Dunno if its feasible to implement though.
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/WorldAnvilCodex/a/mention-system sounds like the system you're looking for?
Pretty sure this already exists
Auto linking was a HUGE time saver in RealmWorks... would love to see it here in WorldAnvil.
I've used a competitor's product that had this built in, and it was without doubt my favourite part. Plus, the ability to write an article then press a button to have it search for keywords in older articles & suggest linking the new article back to them, instead of having to manually remember everywhere I wrote the word, is amazingly useful & dearly missed. The database should already be doing at least basic indexing, so adding this feature shouldn't require a huge amount of code architecture if it were carefully written.
Seems like a feature that shouldn't be to hard to implement, and very useful. I have no idea how taxing this would be for the servers, but seeing as this is essentially the fundamental function of every document software or web-browser anyway (ctrl+f usually), I doubt it would require much. It just streamlines the need to do each single manually.
I'm sure I would really enjoy having this tool at my disposal, but the resources required to allow the entire userbase of WA to perform this action regularly seem prohibitively expensive. Assuming it was in fact an endeavor that could be reasonably attempted, I imagine it would have to be restricted to particular subscription levels to mitigate resource consumption.
I think this could be hard to implement, but what about this: For each article, you can set a specific "linking" word. So, you set an "autolink word" in article A, and at the first occasion of that word in article B, it automatically links to article A. But yes, such a feature would be extremely helpful!
This is sufficent to be it´s own tech start up product. Or essentially google (google is doing the reverse but this is not alot of a difference) ... It might sound easy but doing this, espcially on a performance level that is usable with multiple Thousand users is an actual tech companies job. what could however be a relativly simple and good idea is to allow quick linking into the last n Articles. That is presumable the thing you want most of the time. Alternativly as a work around you can first create the link using something like foo (if the foo article should be about a person) and then later on write the article.
Given it's a little difficult to implement links as of now, I definitely think this should be implemented at least in some capacity.
Too much like a search algorithm that doesn't care what the article is about as long as it has the term "New York" in it or gives results based on someone else's search for "New York" that didn't have any "New York" in it. I'd go with something that simplified the @ method here, but suggesting links to everything or nothing "New York" seems like too much sugar in the teacup.
This seems like a huge amount of technical work for something that you can solve with the existing mention system as you are writing the article. This would require it to have been pre-considered in the database design, or else its gonna require a hefty lift. Also it wouldn't allow for things like linking to an article for "New York" when you reference it with anything other than the specific title, for example calling it the "Big Apple", or "The City That Never Sleeps". So you'd end up getting forced into much more repetitive language, unless you went back through and edited the different generated references; at which point you're basically back to using the @mention system as it exists.
That's a great idea! Would be good to have a "Check All Articles" button as well, as the more you expand you might have previously mentioned something in other articles that now need updated/addressed