Last modified: 2010-12-30 19:07:57 UTC
I was using wikipedia and thought it would be useful if when hovering over an internal link (one that points back to wikipedia) that there was some way to provide a brief definition or description of the target page. So, for instance, I am looking at the Macrophage article and I see a link to the Monocyte article. When I hover my mouse over the link it says "Monocyte". This isn't tremendously useful. I know that the author of the Macrophage page could specify the tool tip, but it would be more convenient if there were a way to define a generic tool tip in the Monocyte page, that provides a brief description that will appear as a tool tip in any page that links to it. Thus saving the linking pages author the effort of reproducing content from the linked to page. I suppose it should be overridable by the linking author. My apologies if I have overlooked this feature. I have never seen it used.
[[WP:POPUP]] is close to what you are looking for, although allowing authors to specify a tooltip on, in your case, the Monocyte page, would be even better IMHO.
The tooltip is the full page title.
*** Bug 7845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 503 ***