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In VE, the autocomplete (search) link selection tolerates some scope of typos. That toleration works for English and other more or less [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_typology#Analytic_languages|analytic languages]]. However, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_typology#Synthetic_languages|synthetic languages]] have endings that aren't ignored by the autocomplete. That causes users to fix little regular things again and again, whenever they want to add a link. Please have a look at an example, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%A9clinaisons_noms_pluriel_polonais.jpg|Polish plural endings]]. In Polish, when I add a link to an article entitled "Sąd Najwyższ**y** Stanów Zjednoczonych" (US Supreme Court) in a sentence where the genitive case is correct ("Sąd**u** Najwyższ**ego** Stanów Zjednoczonych"), I don't have to change the first word (-u is like a typo) but I have to do it with the second one (y -> ego). It gets messy when more words have endings. And I did't mention [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language|Finnish and alike]] (e.g. very simple changes: Helsinki -> Helsingissä or talo -> taloissani). Each language has its specific endings. It's impossible to list all of those for all the languages in one place. Instead, you could allow wikis to set "tolerated typos" //on their local pages//. Just like it has been done with Citoid.

In VE, the autocomplete (search) link selection tolerates some scope of typos. That toleration works for English and other more or less [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_typology#Analytic_languages|analytic languages]]. However, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_typology#Synthetic_languages|synthetic languages]] have endings that aren't ignored by the autocomplete. That causes users to fix little regular things again and again, whenever they want to add a link. Please have a look at an example, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%A9clinaisons_noms_pluriel_polonais.jpg|Polish plural endings]]. In Polish, when I add a link to an article entitled "Sąd Najwyższ**y** Stanów Zjednoczonych" (US Supreme Court) in a sentence where the genitive case is correct ("Sąd**u** Najwyższ**ego** Stanów Zjednoczonych"), I don't have to change the first word (-u is like a typo) but I have to do it with the second one (y -> ego). It gets messy when more words have endings. And I didn't mention [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language|Finnish and alike]] (e.g. very simple changes: Helsinki -> Helsingissä or talo -> taloissani). Each language has its specific endings. It's impossible to list all of those for all the languages in one place. Instead, you could allow wikis to set "tolerated typos" //on their local pages//. Just like it has been done with Citoid.

In VE, the autocomplete (search) link selection tolerates some scope of typos. That toleration works for English and other more or less [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_typology#Analytic_languages|analytic languages]]. However, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_typology#Synthetic_languages|synthetic languages]] have endings that aren't ignored by the autocomplete. That causes users to fix little regular things again and again, whenever they want to add a link. Please have a look at an example, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%A9clinaisons_noms_pluriel_polonais.jpg|Polish plural endings]]. In Polish, when I add a link to an article entitled "Sąd Najwyższ**y** Stanów Zjednoczonych" (US Supreme Court) in a sentence where the genitive case is correct ("Sąd**u** Najwyższ**ego** Stanów Zjednoczonych"), I don't have to change the first word (-u is like a typo) but I have to do it with the second one (y -> ego). It gets messy when more words have endings. And I didn't mention [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language|Finnish and alike]] (e.g. very simple changes: Helsinki -> Helsingissä or talo -> taloissani). Each language has its specific endings. It's impossible to list all of those for all the languages in one place. Instead, you could allow wikis to set "tolerated typos" //on their local pages//. Just like it has been done with Citoid.