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Description: I think PmWiki's WikiWord implementation is a bit overzealous. It correctly knows to ignore all-capital abbreviations/acronyms like DVD, CD and TV, but if you make these plural like DVDs, CDs and TVs, then it thinks they ought to be linked.

It would be nice to see a good implentation of a "Glossary cookbook" for those problems, so users of PmWiki (not the admin) will not have every single word that looks like a wiki word, that has a small definition and are not worth a wiki page, to become one.

That would be nice because this is important to keep wiki administration and technical documentation with a wiki, sane.

I saw every other implementation like: Markup for plurals, acronyms, glossary, abbr ...

I think that a glossary like system would be nice to solve:

• Problems with plurals
• Problems with Technical acronyms
• Problems with software/hardware names that have capital and non capital words in it.
• Glossary for words that don't need a wiki page for it and are out of the scope of the site using pmwiki.
• Ease of use and administration of a wiki for documentation on something.

CarlosAB

We might just want to redefine $WikiWordPattern so that at least two lowercase letters are required to build a wikiword. This has been discussed somewhat on the pmwiki-users mailing list.

Comments, votes?

--Pm

PM, you have my vote -IanMacGregor