On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:54 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> would it make sense to use wikidata for such tasks as well? > > Wikidata already represents more granular information than an article, the real problem is that the only way that we have to bind a piece of information in Wikipedia to its Wikidata representation is through the article name. This is of course derived from the technological limitations of mediawiki which treats each article as a blob of text. On Wikisource we use Labeled Section Transclusion to define regions of a mediawiki page that can be transcluded into other pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion It is normally used with the following format: ## stable_section_identifier ## some text here #### In a way, it is like creating a local variable, since you assign an identifier to a section that later on can be referred to regardless of the changes in the text or in the title. I wonder if this is something that could be adapted for Wikipedia in a way that users could mark article sections with unique identifiers and then link those stable section identifiers in Wikidata. Cheers, Micru
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