History: HotwordsDev

Hotwords are a pretty simple feature. I, Chealer9, think they don't work much, being too simple. The reason I say this is they're not really used, at least here at tw.o.

A whole redesign of hotwords may be needed, but a first and good step is to add tiki_p_submit_hotwords and a tiki_p_admin_hotwords (hotwords are way less important than the rest of tiki_p_admin's power, currently used).
See Discussion at bottom.

List of other products with similar/interesting/related features.

Here I would like to see some "editorial" content. How do our features compare to others?

This is where new features being developed and only in CVS are documented. When the CVS becomes RC/official release, the info in the CVS docs is transferred to update the official docs (FeatureXDoc).

Some inconsistency problems

I see it's a bit problematic not to be able to describe hotwords at all. They'll be highlighted in a text, but that's not so useful 😕 I propose to merge Hotwords with directory. It's obvious that the hotwords one use will also get in its site's directory, so the process of creating one is almost everytime duplicated. Maybe a way to change that would be to get a "hotword(s)" field added to the directory.

Wiki pages with names that are not WikiWords can't be Hotwords easily 😑 Of course, pages like Wiki shouldn't be linked to by default because we would have a huge hotwords mess here at tw.o. Maybe we would even want some page (like TikiWiki) not to generate Hotwords, considering how much often it's written here. So, we would end with a hotword switch for Wiki pagenames, which default state (on or off) would be determined by whether the pagename is a ))WikiWord(( or not. But we could even want to have multiple names for a Wiki page. If the primary identifier of a Wiki page becomes an ID, this would mean that renaming wouldn't break links anymore (we could just keep the old name as alias).

Extending this idea, it's clear that we could use hotwords for other things than Wiki (~and directory). Images, Forums could all use that.

So we would still need a hotwords listing, but it would include all kinds of hotwords.

I write this after wondering why we ended up with a WikiPedia page at tw.o, probably a copy of a page already at WikiPedia.

Please, comment this idea, mine is still incomplete.
Chealer9

• Well, I actually use hotwords! In my course on intellectual property, for example, I use hotwords to mark unfamiliar terms (such as 'first sale' or ''digital rights management (DRM)'). BUT a problem arises when one of these terms appears at the beginning of a sentence - it would be great to have automatic first-character capitalization in such cases... UserPagebpfaffenberger
• Well, I really want to use this feature as it is. I built a whole glossary and now am unable to use it. A bug causes this feature to interfere with lnks. Perhaps, whatever parsing is used should identify the hotword by an empty space at boths ends and an absence of punctuation?