If the bot worked well that would be awesome, but it sounds like maybe not so much? I don't actually type any brackets a lot of the time.
I search on Fanlore for the text I want to link, go down the return list and Ctrl click to open each page in a new tab. Go to the first tab and...
I open the page to edit, hit Ctrl + F type the text I want into the search box, click next, and then my browser highlights the text, and I click the Internal link button in the toolbar and the link is made.
After I close that tab, the search bar is still there with my text still in it, so it's click, click, click and on and on. It's actually more of a hassle saving the page, but my browser will autofill the comment box so that's partly automated too.
This obviously won't work as a shortcut method in every single circumstance. Sometimes you have to do some editing anyway, but in a lot of instances it is the fastest way I have found to make multiple wikilinks across multiple pages.
This might not work in every browser. I use Firefox for Ubuntu, but I recall IE highlighting in the same way.
If someone can't comfortably use a mouse this method is likely not any help at all.
Not a total solution to automation, but some partial solutions.
I search on Fanlore for the text I want to link, go down the return list and Ctrl click to open each page in a new tab. Go to the first tab and...
I open the page to edit, hit Ctrl + F type the text I want into the search box, click next, and then my browser highlights the text, and I click the Internal link button in the toolbar and the link is made.
After I close that tab, the search bar is still there with my text still in it, so it's click, click, click and on and on. It's actually more of a hassle saving the page, but my browser will autofill the comment box so that's partly automated too.
This obviously won't work as a shortcut method in every single circumstance. Sometimes you have to do some editing anyway, but in a lot of instances it is the fastest way I have found to make multiple wikilinks across multiple pages.
This might not work in every browser. I use Firefox for Ubuntu, but I recall IE highlighting in the same way.
If someone can't comfortably use a mouse this method is likely not any help at all.