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Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#1: Aug 31st 2011 at 2:27:54 PM

Would it be possible to go one step further and make them Not-a-wiki-word? Such as, have a special filterlist that would automatically translate Sat AM into SatAM ?

Next question: Would it be worth the effort?

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#2: Aug 31st 2011 at 2:31:14 PM

That sounds like it would be very hard to code, and would result in a lot of words that are wiki words not being rendered as such...

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Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#3: Aug 31st 2011 at 2:56:40 PM

Please explain "a lot of" if this is blacklist-based...

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#4: Aug 31st 2011 at 3:02:09 PM

Well, I don't code, so I'm just going off my impression of what it seems like it would take, just looking at the system. You'd have to have some kind of cut-off or complex system to determine if it's a trope or not.

You could say that any wiki word that isn't actually a trope name would simply not work, but we use those in the forums for fun things... sad[lol]

And, even if it were wiki-only, we need the non-article redlinks to create new articles, so...

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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#5: Aug 31st 2011 at 3:09:42 PM

On the other hand, if things like DVDs would automatically not try to Wiki Word-ify, that might be nice. Something like not auto-linking any string that consists of all caps followed by an s.

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#6: Aug 31st 2011 at 4:29:46 PM

It's already been suggested that pure initialisms not automatically Wiki Word unless you { } bracket them. It's somewhere vaguely on the list kind of.

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#7: Sep 1st 2011 at 1:24:32 PM

But on a related note, a (for lack of a better term) Wiki Word Blacklist could be a useful feature in some cases. E.g. C Ds, NP Cs, etc. that aren't intended as actual Wiki Words.

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