On 20.11.2008, at 23:35, Bence Damokos wrote: > I usually translate articles to the Hungarian Wikipedia from the > English one, and I mark them with a template[1]* that links to the > source article. > If I wanted to make a proper book out of these articles, it would be > most comfortable if the parser pulled the principal authors of any > linked articles in the different projects.
Principal authors in MediaWikis are a problem per se: We are being in talks with the Wikimedia Foundation and the community to achieve a better solution. Ideally, MediaWiki would provide the information and offer it via API. Right now, there's not even a consensus about which authors should be considered principal authors... Regarding your special case (translated articles): That's a feature that could be useful in general terms for MediaWiki, i.e. not just in generated documents or printed books. But in my opinion it's sufficient – even preferable – to just correctly cite the original article, including its URL. For example, place it in the reference section of the translated article together with some explanation that this is a translation, plus the reference to the source article. BTW: If you want to include other information in PDFs/books than in the online version of the article, you can always create a print template that overrides a normal template, see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Collections#Substituting_templates . (Note that as of Tuesday[1], the prefix used to construct the titles of print templates is taken from the system message coll- print_template_prefix to have it localized in non-English wikis.) [1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=43673 > if there was a unified markup (possibly hidden as between <!-- and -- > > tags) that could be added to these templates that the parser would > understand Microformats could be useful in many places, but using HTML comments for them is "bad practice". See Brion's answer on Wikitech-l: """ The one case I might think of is microformats that make use of comments... but that's bad practice, since parsers can legitimately strip comments. :D """ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-November/040171.html -- Johannes Beigel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mwlib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
