Show Thread Enhancements - Wikipedia reference-link BBCode

Wikipedia reference-link BBCode

Install instructions

1) Upload wikipedia.gif to /images/misc

2) Login into your AdminCP

3) Custom BB Codes, Add New BB Code

Title: Wikipedia reference-link

Replacement:

<span style="background-color: White; border: 1px dashed Blue; padding: 3px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="images/misc/wikipedia.gif" alt="Wikipedia reference-link" align="absmiddle" border="0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{param}" target="new">{param}</a></span>

Example:

[wikipedia]Vbulletin[/wikipedia]

Use {option}: No
Button Image (Optional): images/misc/wikipedia.gif

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Syntax:

[wikipedia]Keyword[/wikipedia]

Simple but useful.

[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by BlackSun

Its currently only a link, the popup layer is a feature I work at present.

Any luck with the popup feature? That would make this code absolutely perfect. Useful enough as it is, but the popup feature would just rock.

Only one comment - you might want to choose a more neutral color for the default link background, which will work for either white or black based styles. I'm using Gray, which works in all my styles.

-- hugh

[Patria]

Originally Posted by cheesegrits

Any luck with the popup feature? That would make this code absolutely perfect. Useful enough as it is, but the popup feature would just rock.

I still work on the feature. I get the infos from wikipedia and strip the HTML but at time I work on a better solution - with a additional text file or database with the keywords - that wont cause so much load for wikipedia.

Only one comment - you might want to choose a more neutral color for the default link background, which will work for either white or black based styles. I'm using Gray, which works in all my styles.

-- hugh

Ok, thanks for the suggestion.

[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by BlackSun

I still work on the feature. I get the infos from wikipedia and strip the HTML but at time I work on a better solution - with a additional text file or database with the keywords - that wont cause so much load for wikipedia.

While I applaud your efforts to be a good net.citizen by caching wiki results, I'm just wondering what method you will use to make sure the cached results don't become outdated? Obviously one of the fundamental principles of wikipedia is that it is constantly changing, with anyone being able to edit the entries.

Maybe a cron job which runs thru your table once a day and refreshes the data?

On the flat file vs database, personally I would vastly prefer a database table.

If you need anyone to help with development or testing, I'd be more than happy to help out in any way I can.

-- hugh

[rockaffe]

Hi, I had a wiki installed in my site and I'll use surely this mod.
But there's a way to make it automatic, like a glossary?

[Patria]

Originally Posted by rockaffe

Hi, I had a wiki installed in my site and I'll use surely this mod.
But there's a way to make it automatic, like a glossary?

Not at present.

[Bulent Tekcan]

If you press Editor Mode (in advanced mode) something is wrong.Can you check it ?

Thanks

[Patria]

Originally Posted by Bulent Tekcan

If you press Editor Mode (in advanced mode) something is wrong.Can you check it ?

Thanks

Whats wrong? I mean ... could you provide me a more detailed description?

[Luggruff]

Is it possible to let the users select wich language they want to refer to?
Like a dropdown list or something (after you pressed the BB-code-button)

..Maybe like the smiley button in the post-editor?

[Patria]

Originally Posted by Luggruff

Is it possible to let the users select wich language they want to refer to?
Like a dropdown list or something (after you pressed the BB-code-button)

..Maybe like the smiley button in the post-editor?

No, but you could add a Wikipedia BBCode and Button for each language. Like [wikipedia-de], [wikipedia-en], [wikipedia-se] and so on ...

[Luggruff]

Originally Posted by Patria

No, but you could add a Wikipedia BBCode and Button for each language. Like [wikipedia-de], [wikipedia-en], [wikipedia-se] and so on ...

if the smileybutton is possible, this would also be -_-
(I just asked since I can't figure out where the code for the smileybutton is)

And yes, I might not have made myself clear, but i did actually mean the possibility to choose (in the same way as you choose smileys from a drop-down) between different BB-codes.
Why? Because a button for each one would simply just take up too much space -_-