A "Hey, that'd be cool but completely unrealistic"

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:59 pm

This just popped off my head when my internet was crawling and I wasn't able to link to Beautiful Earth in BBT's thread.

Is there a way to integrate Wikipedia or Everything2-style pipelinking into the forum? I'm not sure how flexible phpBB is, but it'd be sweet as all hell if, for example, typing [AbsoluteDestiny|Shameless Rock Video] would look like Shameless Rock Video by AbsoluteDestiny when posted.

Just a thought.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:24 pm

I could see a lot of people spelling it wrong and forgetting to preview :p

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:37 pm

Zarxrax wrote:I could see a lot of people spelling it wrong and forgetting to preview :p

Yeah, I know, that's another reason I figure this will never be implimented. You could add some sort of auto-correct thing, but that'd take up even more time...

godix · Post by **godix** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:03 pm

Keep in mind the majority of people would type [I don't know|that one cool video] then repeatedly ask in site help why the pipeline doesn't work.

billy_wires · Post by **billy_wires** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:55 pm

It'd be great if that were implemented. I wouldn't worry too much about people whining that it doesn't work; they alread bitch about the things that are already in place. But I've never seen the code for a forum, so I'm not sure if it's possible. You could ask on the phpBB Group forums, possibly...

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:42 pm

dokool wrote:
Zarxrax wrote:I could see a lot of people spelling it wrong and forgetting to preview :p
Yeah, I know, that's another reason I figure this will never be implimented. You could add some sort of auto-correct thing, but that'd take up even more time...

The system as used by MediaWiki isn't very tolerant of screwups. If you go to <a href="http://www.amvwiki.org">AMVWiki</a> you'll find a few articles that have links to what SHOULD be the same article but aren't due to slight changes in linking.

You'll also see a lot of links that simply aren't "wikized", even though they should be.

So...yeah. We could do fuzzy matching but I think it'd be far more trouble than it's worth.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:44 pm

billy_wires wrote:It'd be great if that were implemented. I wouldn't worry too much about people whining that it doesn't work; they alread bitch about the things that are already in place.

Ah, but see, I have evidence that testifies to the difficulty of getting people to work with this system.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:34 am

trythil wrote:
billy_wires wrote:It'd be great if that were implemented. I wouldn't worry too much about people whining that it doesn't work; they alread bitch about the things that are already in place.
Ah, but see, I have evidence that testifies to the difficulty of getting people to work with this system.

Yeah, and while with Wiki and E2 you can go back and edit the writeup/article/whatever and fix it, phpBB with edit disabled is much less forgiving...

Okay, so this is futile. Was still worth mentioning, IMHO.

billy_wires · Post by **billy_wires** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:45 am

trythil wrote:
billy_wires wrote:It'd be great if that were implemented. I wouldn't worry too much about people whining that it doesn't work; they alread bitch about the things that are already in place.
Ah, but see, I have evidence that testifies to the difficulty of getting people to work with this system.

Okay, fair enough. I have no experience in this area, and it should be showing now...