Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:33:48 UTC
Dear Developer. MediaWiki is one program I adore, for its help in its use, and strength it has brought to the free-software community. I have a RFE which I hope you will accept. I tried looking for Simpsons_rule in Wikipedia, and the actual entry was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons's_rule . I had to use 'Google' for this, results. What I would like is to have some functionality like in 'Google': you search for 'Brootney Speaoors' and 'Google' kind of suggests: did you mean ['Britney Spears']. ? Why cant we do it in MediaWiki? You could try, some type of Levenshtein, string matching algorithm for approximate string matching algorithm. I find this library on freshmeat: libbitap which calls itself, a 'approximate regexp library'. http://freshmeat.net/projects/libbitap/ I guess this new auto-redirect feature to the most appropriate string will make it easier for folks to use, Wikipedia and other BIG community projects that use, MediaWiki. Motivations to include approximate string matching: + Not everyone can type 50WPM, and correctly. + Not everyong is 21, Male, young and without Carpal Tunnel Syndrome + Time is Money. Noteveryone is going to suffer Google searches for Wikipedia missing articles. + You can make a real difference to user experience. Please consider doing this stuff for the best of us. Thanks. Muthu.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 974 ***
