Community Suggestion: Add a skip all button to the autolinker
Add a skip all button to the autolinker
Feature Upgrade · Editor: euclid · Created by hamilcarbarca
declined
Autolinker skip skip-all selective-replace
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
The autolinker can be cumbersome to use for larger articles, especially if you have a lot of articles with common names you often use when not intending to reference them. Using the automatic replace features can be limiting and indiscriminate to how you want links distributed, and the selective replace feature can become very tedious when you need to skip a lot of possible references. As an example, If I have an article titled "Damage" that explains how damage is handled in my system, then every use of the word damage in every article turns up a hit for the autolinker, meaning I would often have to click through a lot of skips, especially when articles go long. If I could click "skip all" the first time damage came up, it could save quite a bit of time, and save me from having to come up with more obfuscated article titles.How does this feature request address the current situation?
If there was an option to "skip all" for a specific article title, it would allow for much faster use of the selective replace feature for longer articles. The button would automatically skip any further references to that article, so you don't have to click skip again every time the title of that article is used again.The Team's Response
Thanks for your suggestion! This won't be implemented due to very low community support—I recommend using the "Replace First of Each" button instead, which will skip all other occurrrences of the link.
Current score
7/300 Votes · -499 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by themrbeasley
on 2023-07-05 12:47Skip Remaining seems like a better term, but yeah, this is a small QOL update that I can get behind.
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-100
by oaster2000
on 2023-06-30 10:36I can see this being an issue for someone who is experiencing it, but I can't see its scope beyond that issue. It has merit, but is very limited as a problem.
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-300
by DJverne12
on 2023-06-29 13:31 -
-300
by Athevra
on 2023-06-27 23:51 -
+1
by SebGreg732
on 2023-06-25 21:48 -
-100
by A Uncontrollable Orc
on 2023-06-24 14:02 -
-300
by A Frightened Dwarf
on 2023-06-24 02:54I am sorry but what you describe above although it might have some merit - it is a very unique case of you using as an article name an extremely common word and using the autolinker on that case. Also ... why not use the "replace only first" option of the autolinker to fix that? :)
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+300
by hamilcarbarca
on 2023-06-22 06:21
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