MediaWiki terminology plugin

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Mon Apr 5 15:32:37 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 05:26:53PM -0500, Ian Weller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:44:02AM -0400, Paul Frields wrote:
> > This could be very useful for our wiki, given the nature of our
> > wiki-using community and the amount of jargon users sometimes
> > encounter on wiki pages.
> > 
> > Ian -- can you look into whether it's usable with our wiki?
> 
> At first glance, it looks like it's compatible with our instance of
> MediaWiki.
> 
> In my personal opinion, this would get in the way of users who use the
> wiki for development rather than end-user support. There's no way to
> selectively turn it on/off for certain pages as far as I can tell.

Hm, yeah.  Is it that the pop-ups would be annoying, or is there
something else you have to circumnavigate while editing?

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