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Alternative Spellings for Autolinker

Feature Upgrade · Editor: euclid · Created by danieln
accepted

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

The autolinker is a great feature, but sometimes I do not include the full name of my articles when writing. In those instances, the autolinker won't register them as possible links.  

How does this feature request address the current situation?

Allowing for alternative spellings will make using the autolinker much smoother. For example, if I have an article named "Anakin Skywalker", I would like "Anakin" to link to it (or at least have the option to).  

What are other uses for this feature request?

None that I can think of. It's quite straightforward

The Team's Response

Thanks for the suggestion! There is no way for the autolinker to accurately guess alternative spellings without mistakes, so it won't be automatic. However, we will implement a manual alias system so that you can specify all the different names an article can be known as.
Current score

32/300 Votes · +7403 points

Votes Cast

  • +300

    by shazamman3000
    on 2024-02-05 02:44
    I think this would be helpful when performing large or complex world building
  • +1

    by Rilameth
    on 2024-02-03 19:15
  • +1

    by Dezzicus Prime
    on 2024-02-03 09:00
  • +300

    by AnxiousArachnid
    on 2024-02-02 10:22
  • +100

    by Niko_Kirova
    on 2024-02-01 20:38
  • +300

    by Nordenclave
    on 2024-02-01 20:00
  • +100

    by Guillu_
    on 2024-01-31 09:08
  • +300

    by Nezral
    on 2024-01-28 17:23
  • +300

    by shamrocklobster
    on 2024-01-28 05:00
  • +300

    by d.fdez.reguera
    on 2024-01-25 16:58
    I need this so badly. I need to remember how I wrote things in the title, and it usually means a lot of backtracking.
  • +300

    by Fiovara
    on 2024-01-24 08:18
  • +300

    by Shirmanto B
    on 2024-01-23 13:29
  • +1

    by A Cute Orc
    on 2024-01-23 12:19
  • +100

    by TheNamesJonas
    on 2024-01-21 19:19
  • +100

    by Mahdi Avendesora
    on 2024-01-20 13:11
  • +300

    by themrbeasley
    on 2024-01-19 16:09
    This sounds really complicated. I'd LOVE for improvements to the autolinker, so I won't subtract points. But, it doesn't sound easy, I'll say that much.   What IS easy is typing "@" before an article's title is invoked, autocompleting it with the tag, and then changing the text in the brackets. When you use the autolinker, you can also parse that text to change the text in the brackets.   The workflow has to adapt outside of the autolinker, but its still relatively quick and easy, I'm not sure this is a GREAT idea. But, I really DO also want a more robust autolinker. Someone else mentioned categories, but there are more. What about autolinking other page types (Maps, sheets, anything)? Why is it only articles? I don't know what the back end of the feature even looks like.   All this for 100 points. I'm in the middle of leaning toward supporting this. But I'm not gonna hold my breath.
  • +300

    by M. Dixon Games
    on 2024-01-19 12:28
  • +300

    by MichaelsMind
    on 2024-01-18 21:28
  • +100

    by Anarchyology
    on 2024-01-17 20:13
  • +300

    by tjtrewin
    on 2024-01-17 12:09
    Yes please! I'd love to be able to set aliases for articles.
  • +100

    by bears
    on 2024-01-17 02:29
  • +300

    by LoreParmenter
    on 2024-01-17 02:25
  • +300

    by HunterChristmas1247
    on 2024-01-17 01:34
  • +300

    by AaLion
    on 2024-01-16 23:03
  • +300

    by Tiberius Fursten
    on 2024-01-16 15:37
  • +300

    by WeStanNikolai
    on 2024-01-15 20:37
    YES! I worldbuild in German, most of my articles have an article before the actual title (the infamous der, die, das), but if I mention, for example, an organization within another article, I wouldn't necessarily use the same case (so, "Die Organisation" might become "der Organisation"), which already doesn't trigger the autolinker.
  • +100

    by Quiqueck
    on 2024-01-15 11:33
  • +300

    by hamilcarbarca
    on 2024-01-14 23:48
    I could really get behind a tag-like system for each article that you list strings you'd like the auto-linker to associate with that article, or else a toggle-able option for the current implementation vs a more expanded search. For larger worlds, the auto-linker can already return hundreds of results on even a modest sized article, and I could see it quickly getting out of hand if it included more than just the exact article names without any options.
  • +300

    by tofistig
    on 2024-01-14 13:18
  • +100

    by bphilippe
    on 2024-01-14 10:29
    Just a suggestion of what I do if this can help you :
  • « Anakin » is the Article Name
  • « Anakin » is also in the « Naming » tab « Given Name » field
  • « Skywalker » is in the « Naming » tab « Family Name » field
  • Auto linking is then just looking to « Anakin »   It would be good idea to have a kind of second name for any type of articles.
  • +300

    by Foxyowlet
    on 2024-01-14 01:22
  • +300

    by ashensoul314
    on 2024-01-13 20:25
  • +300

    by danieln
    on 2024-01-13 15:21