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Brett on "Wikipedia Plugin"

Brett — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:22:04 +0000

You could try something like this: ahttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wikipop/a

bluebird2 on "Wikipedia Plugin"

bluebird2 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:25:35 +0000

This is an idea for a plugin:
There is an old plugin for Answers.com that makes te visitor able to check the meaning of any word in the blog only by double clicking on it. You can see aan example here in this blog:
http://media.www.lakelandmirror.com/media/storage/paper471/news/2006/03/30/Opinions/Do.Weblogs.Count.For.Libel-2011701.shtml
just double-click on any word. You get the meaning in a box.

What I have in mind is something similar for Wikipedia. It would be great to give the visitor the ability to check Wikipedia without leaving the site.

bluebird2 on "External Linking Plugin"

bluebird2 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:25:35 +0000

A few more ideas for this plugin:

a. The user can set up the plugin to do the same thing with online book, CD, and DVD stores such as Amazon, Borders, or others. The plug in searches for the proper names (it recognizes them based on their capital letters, their quotation marks, and the order of their words) and links them to the book/CD/DVD titles with the exact same names in those stores.

b. This feature can have an option for adding Associate number, if the user has one, and create a link incorporating that Associate number.

c. The feature can prioritise certain media types. For example the plugin can search and link the word "Doors" first to the find in Amazon CDs, and if it could not find the word there then it can search for it among DVDs.

d. The user can prioritise the use of Wikipedia (or any other encyclopaedia-like website) over the online stores or vise versa. So when a word such as "Robinson Crusoe" is found on a post, it can be automatically linked to Wikipedia or the book or DVD on Amazon.

e. The plugin is automatically disabled for the manually-created links, unless the user decides the plugin to overwrite his/her links.

bluebird2 on "External Linking Plugin"

bluebird2 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:36:14 +0000

This is an idea for a plugin, not an addition to the WP base:

A plugin that automatically creates external links to Wikipedia (or any other website of choice) out of Proper names, if those names could be found on Wikipedia or the other selected sites. This makes the burden of mechanical job of linking much easier.