Reverse-linking wiki?

July 7, 2005 1:13 PM

Is there a reverse-linking wiki? I'm looking for an indexing feature in a wiki.

In a "normal" wiki, you create links to pages inside the wiki using CamelCase, brackets, etc. If the linked page doesn't exist, the wiki flags it with a question mark, colored text, whatever. I'm looking for a wiki that will index or search its pages and automatically create links when a new page is created. Ex., I can write several pages containing the term "Maine lobster" without links. When I create a page titled Maine Lobster, the wiki will automatically (or even on manual command) search all pages in the wiki for that term and insert the links. Is there such a beast?

posted by joaquim to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

What you want is a link suggester bot. Let it loose on a wiki, and it will find articles with potential links to other articles. One that's on wikipedia is Nickj's linkbot. (There's a link to the bot's source code on this page.)
posted by CrunchyFrog at 2:24 PM on July 7, 2005

Response by poster: Thanks, CrunchyFrog. I'll take a look at that.
posted by joaquim at 1:11 PM on July 8, 2005