jQuery: creating Wikipedia links from acronyms

Writing about web standards, I usually got a bunch of acronyms that could be better used. How? By wrapping and turning them into Wikipedia links. Here's the jQuery code:

function wrapAcronymsWithLinks() {

    $('acronym').each(function() {

        var $acronym = $(this);
        var text = $acronym.text().toUpperCase();

        $acronym.wrap('<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/' + text + '"></a>');

    });


}

Really simple.

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