OurBigBook Docs
OurBigBook Web can automatically create links to topics from regular plaintext. For example, if the following topics exist:then writing:will automatically be converted to something like:This reduces the burden on writers of having to manually create topic links themselves.
/go/topic/quantum-mechanics/go/topic/mathematicsl-physics
I like mathematical physics and quantum mechanics.
I like <a href="/go/topic/mathematical-physics">mathematical physics</a> <a href="/go/topic/quantum-mechanics">quantum mechanics</a>.This conversion currently has the following limitations:
- because it would lead to too many false postives and be too distracting, auto-generated links currently just have the exact same color as regular text, and users only notice them when mouse hovering
- for performance reasons, only topics with a given maximum number of words are considered. The maximum length is configurable by the OurBigBook Web admin under site settings via the
automaticTopicLinksMaxWords, and currently defaults to 3. Setting it to 0 turns off the automatic link generation
Topic autolinking becomes especially interesting with auto-generated data to populate a large number of topics, as was done with the wikibot on OurBigBook.com.
This feature is available only on OurBigBook Web. While it would be possible to implement it for static website generation, it would require downloading information from the server which we don't currently want to implement.
