Talk:Automatic hyperlinking
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Seems a much more general feature than the random headings in this article
editI DuckDuckGo'd the web for "wikimedia tool automatically create links" and one link was to this page. It lists some very specific instances of automatic hyperlinking but surely there are hundreds: the original WikiWikiWeb's automatic CamelCase linking, Bugzilla's bug NNN, Phabricator's TNNN , etc. Plus the conventions of linking @UserName, #HashtagName,$STOCKTICKERSYMBOL Twitter, etc., etc., etc. Maybe these are already discussed in a Wikipedia page. The Hyperlink article doesn't have a section on this, seems it could.
I deleted one section for wikihyperlinks.com by @Youssefavx in 2020, a dead "Coming soon" page for a hosted python project.
Up-to-date examples
editI think it's a bit strange that Google Toolbar is the top example here despite being defunct. On the other hand, I appreciate its inclusion because of the mention of Barnes & Noble working around it/etc.
I guess that lots of auto-linking happens inside websites (e.g. GitHub issues, Hashtags in social media, etc.) so is less likely to be controversial. I wonder if there's similarly-controversial current examples we can find to replace the Google Toolbar example and/or if the Google Toolbar example should be sorted further down in the list...
For what it's worth, I think several examples are dubiously notable or not-up-to-date... I've just removed a Firefox extension that no longer exists, say. I'm focusing on Google Toolbar because it's the first example and in my opinion sets a tone for the rest of the list, not because it's the only one. Minion3665 (talk) 14:56, 5 January 2026 (UTC)