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mechanism for providing tooltips/definitions on linked pages
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Author: godber

Description:
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.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:26 PM
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dto wrote:

[[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.

ayg wrote:

*** Bug 7845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 503 ***