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Arantor

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Crazy idea
« on November 26th, 2011, 02:06 AM »
Was discussing the benefits of using YT embed earlier on another forum and a wacky idea hit me.

Would it be viable/useful/beneficial/interesting to have something that did the equivalent of auto-embed but based on Wikipedia links? So that, for example, if you insert a Wikipedia link, it fetches the - say - first paragraph or so and parses that into a quote with link back to Wikipedia?

Definitely plugin material, of course.
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Re: Crazy idea
« Reply #1, on November 26th, 2011, 08:45 AM »
Hmm I don't know. I personally wouldn't use that.

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Re: Crazy idea
« Reply #2, on November 26th, 2011, 10:52 AM »
It was just a crazy idea, and I figured it might encourage a bit less going off-site.

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Re: Crazy idea
« Reply #3, on November 26th, 2011, 02:01 PM »
I'm not saying it wouldnt work ;)

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Re: Crazy idea
« Reply #4, on November 26th, 2011, 04:14 PM »
I like the idea actually.
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Re: Crazy idea
« Reply #5, on November 27th, 2011, 09:11 PM »
Sounds like a cool plugin to me.
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Re: Crazy idea
« Reply #6, on November 27th, 2011, 09:49 PM »
I like it, I think it'd be kinda useful, though I'm not sure I would use it much personally.

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Re: Crazy idea
« Reply #7, on November 27th, 2011, 09:50 PM »
Well, here's the thing. It would work like Aeva does. You just post the link and it *auto embeds* the material for you ;)

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Re: Crazy idea
« Reply #8, on November 27th, 2011, 09:52 PM »
Which is exactly how it "should" work!

I like the concept a lot, I'm just unsure how often I would use it since I don't tend to reference wikipedia for things (or anything else for that matter), but I can definitely see how it could be useful.

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Re: Crazy idea
« Reply #9, on November 27th, 2011, 09:55 PM »
Ah, just checking in case the point was missed. I'm a big fan of automating stuff like this...

In other news, ergh, maybe I shouldn't have had that second beer :/
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