Last modified: 2006-11-09 03:26:00 UTC
i thought it would be handy to get a basic understanding of an article which you come across a link for by holding your mouse over the link and having the tooltip display some of the first part of the article as a tooltip, rather than just displaying the name of the link as it does now. that way, because most articles' opening paragraphs sum up the topic very quickly and generally, when you need to understand the term/concept of the linked article in order to understand the article you are currently reading, you could do so very quickly, and you wouldn't have to navigate away, or open a half-dozen tabs. i've seen this done on links on certain websites before, from memory it displayed little ads with links, as the tooltip. so if i were reading the Rare Earth Hypothesis, i could hold my mouse over the link to the Fermi Paradox and it would display: The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for or contact with such civilizations... as a tooltip. how handy would that be? with all the various linked articles in scientific articles of that kind it would be a much easier and informative experiance to get a quick understanding of the terms used. i find myself very oftern opening up a half-dozen tabs stemming from one topic, when i just wanted to know their basic meaning and then keep reading. anyway, just a suggestion. happy coding to ye :)
There's a JavaScript-based implementation of this active on the English Wikipedia; users add it as an include to their custom JavaScript. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POPUPS for more details.
i see. well i would therefore change this suggestion to having that functionality built-in to the software. at least my wish is granted... i'll go check it out, cheers :)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7278 ***
