How would you suggest that I write the word "Ontology" as a WikiWord. It is very much specific by itself but Wiki won't recognise it. Is there a workaround?

Thanks, M.

• TWiki version: December 2000
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-- MartinCleaver - 30 Jan 2001

Answer

• If you want automatic linking use a real WikiWord, like TheoryOfOntology; or use an ugly one like OntologY.

• If you dont mind non automatic linking, create the Ontology topic and link to it with [[Ontology]]

-- PeterThoeny - 30 Jan 2001

Hmm. Yeah, I guess they would work, the latter is definitely preferable.

How about as a suggestion that TWiki stores a list of SingletonWikiWords, which are single words that always get replaced by [SingletonWikiWord] during the page creation stage? That said, who needs a separate list? I guess TWiki could just search through the known set of Wiki words and do any replacements it needs for SingletonWikiWord.

This is nice coz it doesn't impact the performance of the rendering engine.

If SingletonWikiWords are addded they would not get linked to in retrospect though. I suppose the addition of a new SingletonWikiWord could mark that a job needs to run to reprocess existing pages. In a site holding tens of thousands of pages it would have to be done gradually continually on pages that are not locked. Hmm. Interesting. What do you think?

Regards, Martin.

-- MartinCleaver - 31 Jan 2001

Your are asking for a list of SingletonWikiWords. Does such a list exist for WikiWords at all (not the index, rather a smaller lighter list of those words)?

-- DanielKabs - 21 Feb 2001

Rendering singleton words automatically as links if the topic exists could be done. In fact this has been done for TLAs. It is impacting performance though because capitalized singleton words are very common in text.

A list that returns all topic names of a web does not exist yet, would be a usefull feature though.

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Feb 2001

I think I have an answer for this. That being that we can write .Ontology

Afterall, if a word in another context is for example Codev.SingletonWikiWord then a word in this web is just .SingletonWikiWord

-- MartinCleaver - 26 Mar 2001

See SingletonWikiWordPlugin

-- MartinCleaver - 23 May 2003