Quasilinking when not linking

Quasilinking when not linking

Hi! Would it be possible to maintain a list in Wiktionary:Todo/proto problems, of entries that create a quasi-link without actually linking to anything? In particular entries like dorst (in the Dutch etymology) or afraid (Frankish word), which have a word in the second parameter of {{term}} (and the first is empty, so no link) but with a * in front. Such cases should be replaced by {{recons}} so it would be good to have a list of them. I don't know if you could also make this work when someone writes *''thurst'' without using {{term}} at all (it might give a lot of false positives) but it would also be useful. Thanks in advance!

CodeCat22:14, 6 October 2012

I think I missed this from before. If you still want these you can run the follow regular expressions through wiktionary (e.g. using Autowikibrowser).

  • \*[^'\n\r]+
  • \*\{\{term\|\|[^\}]+\}\} (this latter one will miss cases where the first parameter is a named parameter like lang=...)

Hope that helps.

Bequw τ19:06, 11 May 2013