Extension:Lingo

Lingo is a glossary extension to MediaWiki, that lets you define abbreviations and their definitions on a wiki page. It displays these definitions whenever an abbreviation is hovered over in an article.

Usage
By default Lingo will mark up any page with the terms and definitions defined on the Terminology page of your wiki (or the respective page in the language of your wiki; see the Special:Version page of your wiki for the actual Terminology page name). Just create that page and insert some entries using the following syntax:
 * FTP:File Transfer Protocol
 * AAAAA:American Association Against Acronym Abuse
 * ACK:Acknowledge
 * AFAIK:As Far As I Know
 * AWGTHTGTATA:Are We Going To Have To Go Through All This Again
 * HTTP:HyperText Transfer Protocol

You are also allowed to have Terms and Definitions on separate lines. Additionally you can assign one definition to multiple terms, e.g. to cover grammatical variants (See the U.S.A. example below).
 * FTP
 * File Transfer Protocol


 * AAAAA
 * American Association Against Acronym Abuse


 * ACK
 * Acknowledge


 * U.S.A.
 * USA
 * United Stated of America

You can use any characters in a term (including punctuation, spaces, all UTF-8 characters, but excluding the colon of course), you are not limited to only letters.

You can exclude an article from markup by including the magic word  anywhere in that article's text.

In some cases it may be necessary to exclude only portions of a page, e.g. because Lingo interferes with some JavaScript. This can be achieved by wrapping that part in an HTML element (e.g. a span or a div) and specifying.

The extension is pretty well internationalized by now, thanks to the efforts of the volunteers on http://www.translatewiki.net. (If your language is not supported yet, get an account there and help yourself. It's easy!) To find out the name of the Terminology page and of the  magic word in your wiki's language, have a look at the   and   files.

Installation

 * 1) Download a released version or the current development version
 * Alternatively you can clone Lingo using git
 * 1) Extract the files to the   directory
 * 2) If necessary rename the newly created directory to Lingo
 * 3) Add to the end of LocalSettings.php:
 * 4) Do some customization if necessary (see below)
 * 5) Go to the Special:Version page of your wiki and verify that an entry for Lingo exists
 * 6) From Lingo's entry on the Special:Version page follow the link to the Terminology page of your wiki and insert some entries

Customization
The following settings may be used:
 * to specify a different name for the terminology page; Example:
 * to specify that each term should be annotated only once per page; Example:
 * to specify what namespaces should or should not be used; Example:

If you want to use these settings, just include them in LocalSettings.php after the

Lingo also provides an interface to plug in alternative dictionaries (backends). If you are interested in that, see Semantic Glossary for an example. You can also drop me a mail.

Showcases

 * wiki about shopping - using this extension.
 * NORA online - Dutch Government Reference Architecture website

Add your wiki here!

Version history

 * See here for the version history

Credits
Lingo is a rewrite of extension Terminology, written by BarkerJr with modifications by Benjamin Kahn. Lingo was originally written by Barry Coughlan and is currently maintained by Stephan Gambke.

Reporting bugs
Bugs and feature requests should preferably be reported on the Wikimedia bug tracker.

Comments, questions and suggestions should be sent or posted to:
 * the Lingo discussion page
 * the maintainer