» posted on 10:41pm - May 22 2009 | posted by Lev

While this feature isn't technically "new", since I wrote the code for it ages ago (and have been using it for months on my personal blog), it is new to being used on TT!

Simply put, the auto-linking mechanism looks for key words or phrases in all content on the site, and then automatically creates a link to a specified destination.

For example, any time you write the word "awards", you will get a link to the awards page.

The idea here is to improve accessibility throughout the site, as well as cite and reference other external sites when a relevant name, topic or keyword is used.

Anyhow, if you would like to help contribute to the TT auto-linker, you're more than welcome to recommend your suggestions in the newly created forum.

Just think of common words you see used a lot in news, articles, politics and throughout the forums, and where you think those words should lead to (if anywhere). I won't overly use the feature on less notable or irrelevant (to TT) entries, but you're more than welcome to recommend anything you think of, because you never know what I am looking for until you try a bit!

For example, here are some words that could be used in the auto linker on TT:

- gothic / goth
- punk
- timothy leary
- wikipedia
- bbc
- drugs
- alcohol
- poetry / poem / poems
- art / artwork

...etc.

Maybe some of you get the idea of what I am looking for now?

Each word or phrase suggestion must be accompanied by a suggested destination URL that you think the link should lead to (this may be external from TT; such as on wikipedia, a news site, or another community). Obviously, if we had a gothic section or category somewhere on our site, and someone recommended the word gothic and the destination to another gothic network, we would link to our own first. But for names of notable figures, people, movements and ideologies, we can link to wikipedia, erowid, or any other user-contributed information archives - in the event that we have no relevant or special page for them on TT already.

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