hypertext link to glossary entry

[colonna]

Hello,

just a suggestion.

A lot of esoterical terms are used in the Forum.
It is likely that most of the members reading the posts have no clear idea of their exact meaning.

Would it be possible to ask people to embed esoterical terms in some url reference like
wikipedia to let reader known their meaning. This can be done easily using the
vB code url (www.fedoraforum.org/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode#url).

For example, I just read a post using the term NIC, I did not know the meaning.

The author could have refer it this way
NIC (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_interface_card) in his post, helping people to understand what he was talking about.

It is easy to add tems in wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/) and then to refer to them in technical explanations.

[foolish]

I love this idea. Excelent suggestion. Can we do this Ewdi?

[ewdi]

too much things to parse, it will overload the database if we do it that way (using replace regular expression) however posted can do it using vbcode by themselves. we cant really do automated system. the more words to be replaced the heavier the load is.