> Unfortunately I don't know of any
examples of templates that actually do it, but maybe Wikidata people can
provide some.

It's now done by some infoboxes of the French Wikipedia like 
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Infobox_Monument
They are implemented using this Lua module [1] that allows to describe 
infoboxes as Lua tables. Example of description: 
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Infobox/Monument

Thomas

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Infobox

> Le 4 mars 2015 à 14:58, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> a 
> écrit :
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Sorry, I know I asked about this thing recently, but I can't remember
>> what the outcome was.
>> 
>> I know it's currently not possible to create cross wiki templates, but
>> is there any plan to implement this feature? For example pages like
>> http://enwp.org/Linux contains "Latest version" and probably many
>> other pages reference this latest version. Not only on english
>> wikipedia, but many other wikis as well.
>> 
>> We have the people to update all wikis when new version is out, but we
>> don't have them for every piece of software on the planet, so having a
>> central template that would contain DATA * that could be accessed
>> anywhere would be nice.
>> 
>> * Now why I highlighted DATA? Because I was thinking that project
>> called "wikidata" would actually fit this purpose. Unfortunatelly it's
>> not. The internal API's of wikidata do not allow for some weird
>> security reasons to access data for any article from article with
>> different name. So if there was entry in wikidata for linux, and I
>> wanted to access property "version" in article [[Linux kernel
>> history]] I wouldn't be able to do that. {{FIXME}}
> 
> This is exactly what Wikidata is for. And the reason you can't access
> data from arbitrary items right now isn't some weird security reason.
> It is not being able to purge pages as data changes. The mechanism for
> that is being rolled out now but will still take a while to get to
> your wiki. You want to track https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49930
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Lydia
> 
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