Forum:Suggestion Box

Currently, the suggestion box for internal article linking works as an auto-complete. I remember a few months or a year ago, before an update, it worked more like an auto-correct. Is there a way, via user control panel, advanced options, or individual wikia admin settings, to restore the older auto-correct over the newer auto-complete? SinisterSamurai 22:18, May 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Not in the prefs on Wikia.
 * Someone could know of a JS way of wich i'm unaware.
 * But anyway, i'm not sure to understand the difference of the two behaviors your talking about.
 * On my part, what i hate is that it automatically insert closing bracket as if we never input a text for our links or template parameters. — TulipVorlax 00:12, May 22, 2010 (UTC)

The way it used to be, it would list a suggestion if your keyword(s) or half-of-a-keyword was anywhere in that article's title. If you knew the keywords in any order, you could use the auto-suggest to place the article. It saves time in several instances.
 * Used to be
 * [[Habitat
 * -Habitat for Humanities
 * -Panda Habitation
 * -Department of Habitat Control
 * -Habitat Loss

The way it works now, is it suggests anything starting with what you type, exactly, with no margin for error. You have to know the exact article syntax in order to have it suggested. It's still somewhat of a time saver, but only if you already know the exact wording of what you're looking for. SinisterSamurai 00:30, May 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Is Now
 * [[Habitat
 * -Habitat for Humanities
 * -Habitat Loss


 * Thanks for explaining.
 * I agree that the previous behaviour is better. Unless Wikia has a good reason to say otherwise like that it might put load on the servers. I'll wait for their word on this.
 * If you want, you can use special:contact and give them a link to here. — TulipVorlax 01:31, May 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's because wikia started to use the same "feed" as the search suggestions, which incudes redirects and matches anywhere in the title. But this was changed back to how is now because it was polluting the results with extra titles that usually aren't the correct ones, like the redirects. Specially when redirects are used to "correct" mispelled words, if they are shown in the LinkSuggest then it defeats the "auto-correct" behavior you want. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 18:57, May 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, good point.
 * Maybe one day they will have a way to exclude redirect with the old style. — TulipVorlax 02:16, May 25, 2010 (UTC)