A proposal for a new feature for wiki links

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Proposal:

I would like to have an automatic behavior (like within WIKIPEDIA) to show a summary/abstract if you hover a wiki link with the mouse.

Just pulling out of a hat: an implementation could check the presence of a new standard wiki object (something similiear to “XWikiComments”). As each wiki link is checked if the target is present the overhead wouldn’t be to much. The summary content could be delivered by a new document tab and/or something like a macro (e.g. {{summary}}).

(For the future: A summary could generated automatically by A.I.)

Opinions ?

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Hi, this looks a lot like https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Page%20Preview%20Application/

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Thank you very much for the very valuable tip. I did not know the application yet.

I have looked a little into the code. It contains the method I need:

Using the class tag of the internal wiki links (.wikilink), an AJAX-request is triggered via jquery, which is given the reference of the source to generate and display the additional information.

I think I’ll use this as a basis.