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New Feature: Wikipedia Module

Last post 02-23-2006, 2:55 PM by Mitchell Waite. 0 replies.
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  •  02-23-2006, 2:55 PM 2649

    New Feature: Wikipedia Module

    I'm experimenting with some of the free modules that Community Server offers for this platform. Here is how to use the Wikipedia module. Wikipedia is a fantastic encycolpedia that is based on the collaboration model.

    To insert a wikipedia link in your text, use the following tag:

    wikipedia: TOPIC (surround it by the brackets [ and ])

    where TOPIC is the text you want to both display as a link and link to within Wikipedia.

    Example
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    For example, to link to information about the Red-tailed Hawk within a post, you would write:

    Last weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing a wikipedia: Red-tailed Hawk with [ before wikipedia and ] after Hawk. (If I put the brackets where they belong you would not see the text.)

    So it would appear like this:

    Last weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing a [wikipedia:Red-tailed Hawk].

    Now when you click on the yellow text a little window will appear with the definition of the Hawk taken from Wikipedia.

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