#22 Better plurals and synonyms

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Synonyms)

In general, Wikis have a hard time with plurals and
synonyms.

FlexWiki already addresses the 80% case by mapping
WikiWords to WikiWord if a topic named WikiWord exists,
but WikiWords does not. That's pretty cool.

Here's the 20% that isn't solved yet:

1. If neither WikiWord nor WikiWords exist, you will get
the plural version when you try to create it.
2. If plural is spelled differently, it fails (ForksAndKnives
vs. ForkAndKnife)
3. There are plenty of synonyms in our domain, which
auto-pluralization doesn't help with.

Synonyms isn't a serious problem. Having a redirect
page to the preferred name from all others is nice
because it encourages fixing up other pages to use the
canonical term.

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It would be useful to know if a plural form refers to the same
topic or not as the singular form. For example, to quickly let
people know that FlexWikis isn't going to tell them about all of
the FlexWikis around here, it could like this FlexWiki s
(without the space).