Suggestions - Add a [wiki] tag to auto-link to FlyerGuide

I and other people on the UA forum very often link to FlyerGuide wiki articles. I'm sure people on other forums (e.g. the AA forum) do this often, as well. It would be great if there were a BBcode tag that would auto-link to FlyerGuide, saving us the hassle of having to actually paste the entire proper link into a [url] tag (which also requires finding the correct link).

The way it would work is similar to [url] tags, except the input would be a wiki article title rather than a fully-qualified URL.

[wiki]Article Titles Goes Here would create an automatic link to http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Article%20Title%20Goes%20Here

link text would link to the same thing, but with custom link text.

Whaddya think? It should be nearly trivial to implement, given vB's BBcode expansion functionality.

I and other people on the UA forum very often link to FlyerGuide wiki articles. I'm sure people on other forums (e.g. the AA forum) do this often, as well. It would be great if there were a BBcode tag that would auto-link to FlyerGuide, saving us the hassle of having to actually paste the entire proper link into a [url] tag (which also requires finding the correct link).

The way it would work is similar to [url] tags, except the input would be a wiki article title rather than a fully-qualified URL.

[wiki]Article Titles Goes Here would create an automatic link to http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Article%20Title%20Goes%20Here

link text would link to the same thing, but with custom link text.

Whaddya think? It should be nearly trivial to implement, given vB's BBcode expansion functionality.

Great suggestion! This has been implemented.

There is now available a BBcode tag that can be used as follows:

{wiki=Main_Page}FlyerGuide home page{/wiki} -- (replace "{}" with "[]" to make it actually work)

Which will appear as: [wiki=Main_Page]FlyerGuide home page

Mikel,

Thanks! Could you also implement the simpler version, namely:
Wiki Article Name

Which will auto-link to the article name and make the article name into the link text, e.g. Category:United Airlines would become Category:United Airlines (http://flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Category:United_Airlines) ?

I should also note that underscores aren't necessary; the wiki software automatically turns spaces into underscores, so it works if you do Main Page or Main_Page. Nice! :)

Mikel,

Thanks! Could you also implement the simpler version, namely:
Wiki Article Name

Which will auto-link to the article name and make the article name into the link text, e.g. Category:United Airlines would become Category:United Airlines (http://flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Category:United_Airlines) ?


This has been added as well.

For anyone else who stumbles across this page, usage examples can be found here (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode).

Thanks Mikel! To clean up the Help page, you can follow the examples of [url] or [thread] ... no need to have two entries for [wiki]. :)

Since I am a little confused, does this mean that when I right click a link (I'm right handed) I use the "Wikipedia" option under the "Copy Link And Text Location" option?

However in my case this comes as a Firefox add on. Hence the confusion.

No, this has absolutely nothing to do with Firefox or any contextual menu item. This is merely for creating links to the Flyerguide wiki (which is not Wikipedia) within your posts on FT. Think of it as a short-hand for [url] ...