Talk:Automatic hyperlinking
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Seems a much more general feature than the random headings in this article
[edit]I DuckDuckGo'd the web for "wikimedia tool automatically create links" and one link was to this page. It lists some very specific instances of automatic hyperlinking but surely there are hundreds: the original WikiWikiWeb's automatic CamelCase linking, Bugzilla's bug NNN, Phabricator's TNNN , etc. Plus the conventions of linking @UserName, #HashtagName,$STOCKTICKERSYMBOL Twitter, etc., etc., etc. Maybe these are already discussed in a Wikipedia page. The Hyperlink article doesn't have a section on this, seems it could.
I deleted one section for wikihyperlinks.com by @Youssefavx in 2020, a dead "Coming soon" page for a hosted python project.
Up-to-date examples
[edit]I think it's a bit strange that Google Toolbar is the top example here despite being defunct. On the other hand, I appreciate its inclusion because of the mention of Barnes & Noble working around it/etc.
I guess that lots of auto-linking happens inside websites (e.g. GitHub issues, Hashtags in social media, etc.) so is less likely to be controversial. I wonder if there's similarly-controversial current examples we can find to replace the Google Toolbar example and/or if the Google Toolbar example should be sorted further down in the list...
For what it's worth, I think several examples are dubiously notable or not-up-to-date... I've just removed a Firefox extension that no longer exists, say. I'm focusing on Google Toolbar because it's the first example and in my opinion sets a tone for the rest of the list, not because it's the only one. Minion3665 (talk) 14:56, 5 January 2026 (UTC)