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  In T332484#9553472 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332484#9553472>, @Base 
wrote:
  
  >> Allow the same list be included in different pages
  >
  > You can already do this with templates (or even using another article as 
template via labeled section transclusion)
  
  Yeah, if you view the source code of 
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%A8%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E4%BB%A3%E8%A1%A8%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E4%BB%A3%E8%A1%A8%E5%9B%A2,
 it use modules to extract information from 14 other articles, and the module 
can parse two complete different format (plain list and wikitable). However the 
drawbacks are:
  
  - new users may easily mess up wikitable
  - this does not provide Wikidata integration unless you warp each row over a 
template that uses Wikidata
    - Note: for a stable list, what I propose is not transcluding data 
on-the-fly from Wikidata (since 1. this will make a page access many Wikidata 
entities potentially hitting entityAccessLimit; 2. thisincrease the potential 
of vandalism) instead, stable data are stored locally and can be compared with 
Wikidata via a new special page such as Special:Inconsistency.
  - data is not machine readable, and there are no type safety for data
  
  >> A more user-friendly editing interface
  >
  > Are you sure editing JSON is more user friendly than editing a table? 
(Either wikimarkup based, which can even be edited via GUI, or template based 
which is pretty much the same as JSON complexity wise but uses familiar syntax)
  
  JSON only described the internal storage method - the proper edit interface 
should be similar to Microsoft Excel.
  
  > ----
  >
  > To be honest I am not sure how this would be helpful as opposed to having 
such lists generated automatically. I see value in having a list of senators 
that automatically updates basing on WD, this way a smaller Wikipedia would not 
need to update everything manually after a general election. But I see little 
value in having such lists still manually maintained but now adding JSON to 
list of required skills to every single Wikipedian. In my opinion this is 
different from the current Data pages on Commons which deal with more raw data 
such as numbers and that do imply high degree of technical expertise to deal 
with.
  
  
  
  - For now data page is a Commons-only feature and not available in other 
wikis (though it is very trivial to enable it elsewhere).
  - Commons data page does not integrate with Wikidata. In my proposal fields 
can be populated locally, from Wikidata or even derived from other fields.

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  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332484

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